Frank capra director (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Publicity flyer for Frank Capra's film starring Frank Sinatra and Edward G.Robinson. Single sheet folded to make four sides 7 x 9.5 inches app. Light centre fold, V.g..

DVD. Condizione: New. 2003. 1 disc. Excellent condition. Still in shrinkwrap. DVD35.

Condizione: Fine. La Quinta, California, April 23, 1975., 1975. Fine. - Over 70 words typed on his 10-1/2 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide embossed personal stationery. Frank Capra thanks the recipient for his "cheery letter with so many button-popping comments about my book and films. They are as welcome as heady wine." The book to which he refers is his autobiography "The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography", published in 1971. He goes on to write that "It was particularly delightful to hear that you are so knowledgeable about the Bell Science Series. Those films are my own personal pets." Signed in full "Frank Capra". Folded for mailing, else fine. The Italian-American film director Frank Capra (1897-1991) won 3 Oscars for Best Director. Among his films are "It Happened One Night", "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", and "It's a Wonderful Life". The Bell Science Series consisted of nine television specials made for the AT&T Corporation and were initially broadcast between 1956 and 1964. Frank Capra produced and wrote the first 4 films of the series from 1952 to 1956.…

Condizione: Good. Original pictorial wraps. 18.2 x 25.8cm. 34pp.The Motion Picture Library was a pioneering bilingual film publication launched in Tokyo in post-WWII Japan (1946-1948). Aimed at bridging American pop culture and Japanese audiences, it printed full English scripts, actor profiles, and bilingual synopses of imports like Casablanca.The emergence of these bilingual or heavily translated film resources during the mid-1940s marked a dramatic cultural shift. Following wartime censorship and the total ban of foreign films, the sudden influx of Hollywood movies under the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) created a boom in cine-literacy. ."M?shon pikuch? raiburar?" wa, dainijisekaitaisengo no Nihon (1946-nen ? 1948-nen) ni oite, T?ky? de s?kan sa reta senku-tekina bairingaru eiga shuppan-monodeatta. Amerika no poppukaruch? to Nihon no kankyaku to no kakehashi to naru koto o mezashi, d?shi wa "Kasaburanka" nado no yuny? eiga ni tsuite, kanzen'na eigo kyakuhon, haiy? no purof?ru, soshite nichiei taiyaku no arasuji o keisai shite ita. 1940-Nendai nakaba ni okeru, k?shita bairingaru aruiwa ?habana hon'yaku o hodokoshita eiga kanren shiry? no t?j? wa, gekitekina bunka-teki tenkan o sh?ch? suru monodeatta. Senji-ch? no ken'etsu ya gaikoku eiga no zenmen kinshi o hete, reng?-koku saik? shirei-kan s? shirei-bu (SCAP) no t?chi-ka de Hariuddo eiga ga totsujotoshite tairy? ni ry?ny? shita koto wa, eiga riterash? (eiga o yomitoku chikara) e no kanshin o ikkini takameru b?mu o makiokoshita nodearu.??????????????????????????????????1946??1948??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1940????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SCAP????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.).…

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film. During the Great Depression, a bank owner's bank is robbed and his protégé, an ex-con, is the only suspect. His protégé can't reveal his alibi because one of his witnesses is having an affair he does not want revealed. Partially shot on location at Citizen's National Bank in Los Angeles, California. 8 x 10 inches. Poor, with significant creasing on across the top middle of the photographs.…

Second Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Walter Newman, with Frank Capra credited on the title page as "Producer-Director," and with Capra's production company, Frank Capra Productions, Inc. heading the front wrapper. The script is 247 pages, which would roughly amount to a four hour film. In 1965 Capra was in negotiations to get the financing for Newman's adaptation of Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. Unfortunately, the project was too ambitious, and the cost too great to get the production off the ground, even after Capra had heavy revisions made to the script. Columbia Pictures' producer M.J. Frankovich offered Capra $3 million to make the film, requiring a downsizing of the project too great for Capra to accept, prompting him to abandon the project. Walter Newman is the acclaimed, three time Academy Award nominated screenwriter of "Ace in the Hole" (1951), "Cat Ballou (1965), and "Bloodbrothers" (1978), as well as the uncredited screenwriter of "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and "The Great Escape," both of which he renounced credit on after disputes with the same director, John Sturges (who would go on to direct "Marooned" in 1969, and perhaps not surprisingly, abandon Newman's screenplay, and hire screenwriter Mayo Simon). Newman is perhaps best known for his unproduced 1970 screenplay "Harrow Alley," called by some "the greatest screenplay never made," a 172 page macabre story of the Great Plague in mediaeval England, and is regularly taught in film writing classes, and has for years, as recently as 2018, been rumored to be in production. A film adaptation of Caidin's novel was made in 1969 by director John Sturges, with a screenplay by Mayo Simon, and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, and Gene Hackman. Three astronauts, after spending months in orbit, prepare to return to earth, only to find the rocket boosters won't fire, and their oxygen levels declining. Blue titled wrappers, noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated APRIL 14, 1965. Title page present, dated April 14, 1965, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and Producer-Director Frank Capra. 249 leaves, with last page of text numbered 247. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, with light soiling, creasing, and small closed tears at extremities, bound with two gold brads.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 4to. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, 278 pages. Signed and inscribed by Frank Capra to director George Seaton on the half title page: "To George and Phyllis - Look what Santa brought me! Affectionately - Frank." Provenance: from the estate of Charles Williamson. Inscribed by Author(s).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. An original Finnish re-release poster for You Can't Take It with You (1938), the Columbia Pictures comedy directed by Frank Capra, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, and Lionel Barrymore. First screened in Finland in 1940, this poster dates from a further short theatrical run in 1960. Designed by R. Määttä. Approximately 60 × 40 cm. Condition: Very Good. No pinholes or adhesive marks. Handling creasing around the edges. Minor nick to paper at the bottom edge. Well preserved, clean and bright throughout. …

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film, showing actor Gary Cooper in his iconic role. When a laid-off reporter is asked to write one final column, she fabricates a letter from a John Doe planning on committing suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society's ills. When the letter becomes a sensation, Ann convinces the papers to hire her back and turns the letters into a series of articles. The only problem is, in order to convince the public John Doe is real, they need to find someone to impersonate him. Enter down-on-his-luck homeless man John Willoughby. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1944 film, showing cast and crew members, including director Frank Capra and actors Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Jean Adair, and Raymond Massey, posed together at what appears to be a wrap party. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Capra's beloved, classic rendition of the 1939 Joseph Kesselring play, today considered a high point in Cary Grant's career. Production on the film ended in 1941, only a few days after the United States entered World War II, though the film's release would be delayed until 1944 due to a contractual obligation with the Broadway show. Capra applied for a commission with the Signal Corps, and would make no further commercial films until his discharge, beginning with 1946's "It's a Wonderful Life." Set in Brooklyn. 10 x 8 inches, with wide margins (image measuring 4.5 x 3.75 inches). Very Good, with moderate wear on the margin and a two inch closed tear on the right edge. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films.…

Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the classic 1946 film, showing actors James Stewart and Donna Reed. Stamp specific to RKO's French release on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil. Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of his rope during Christmas. Generally considered one of the greatest films ever made, and nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Shot on location in California. 11 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the bottom corners. National Film Registry. Ebert I. …

Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer, and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its (accurate, then and now) depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional, shallow egotists, the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany, Italy, Spain, and the USSR, and, later, Nazi occupied France. Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with faint diagonal crease to lower right.…

Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City, including their daughter, who falls in love with a banker, a decent and goodhearted man, despite his snobbish, elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards, for Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).…

Three original photographs of Frank Capra and Gary Cooper on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe adhered to the verso of one photograph, referring to the film by its working title "Opera Hat," along with the stamp of photographer A.L. Schafer, and one photograph with a date stamp reading April 20, 1936 on the verso. The first photo shows Capra with the film script in hand, standing next to a wall calendar that prominently reads "Friday December 13th," the day the film was announced. The second is a candid shot of Capra and Gary Cooper, and the third is a candid photo of Capra standing in the balcony of one of the film's sets. A small town man discovers he is the sole beneficiary of his estranged and incredibly wealthy uncle's estate, and must move to New York to claim his inheritance, becoming a moving target for a number of scammers in the process. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. …

Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra, by photographer Alfredo Valente, to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente, filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil, dated "6-25-36," and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp, all on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical, directed by Charles Jarrott, and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas, are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Shot on location in Griffith Park, Ojai, Palms Springs, Victorville, and Sherwood Forest, California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin, else Near Fine. National Film Registry.…

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. ("Frank") in blue fountain pen ink on 3/4 length standing pose attired in a military uniform, receiving a boxed medal from an unidentified man wearing a double-breasted suit, with an American flag and several men in military uniform standing in the background. Photograph is on single weight stock; 8" x 10". Fine. Signed and inscribed to Academy Awawd winning producer Buddy [Adler]: "To Buddy - Frank".…