Word: capra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning out such topflight pictures as It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Harry Cohn borrowed stars and paid them by the day, concentrated on low-cost productions, stayed out of the chain theater business. And Cohn-made names began to glitter-Clark Gable, Director Frank Capra, Robert Montgomery, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Holliday...
...Well Digger's Daughter, which Marcel Pagnol made just before the war, has all the ingredients of some of Frank Capra's films, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It is almost as old; it has a good deal of comedy, a heavy dollop of pathos, and something of a social message. It is entertaining-about as entertaining as Mr. Smith would be to a French audience...
...science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...
Cosmic Rays: For his third show in the Bell System's science series (Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent), Producer-Director Frank Capra again trotted out entertainment as the handmaiden of education. Before a panel of Dostoevsky, Dickens and Poe, played by Bil Baird puppets, Dr. Research (Dr. Frank Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard...
...amassed the biggest schedule of one-shot shows in its history: 25 specials for the nighttime slate, at least 48 news and documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical...