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Frank Capra

Frank Capra
Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)

Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".

18 May 1897

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