Word: capra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra revealed that he has been preparing a series of educational TV movies for the past year. Titled Man, the Explorer, each film will run about an hour as a "combination of entertainment and factual science like LIFE magazine is doing...
...Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine-year-old boy. In the tradition of Frank Capra, who supplied the story for Scripter Charles Schnee, Westward the Women deploys its ample stock company and wealth of incident in a highly artificial pattern designed for a maximum of humor, pathos, action and romance. The result carries little conviction, either historical or human, but it makes a slick piece...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
Although the setting of the film is in and around Boston, neither the actors nor director Frank Capra made the trip East. A crew of about ten, supervised by Assistant Director Arthur Black, have been in the vicinity since Tuesday and hope to return to Hollywood early this week...