Movies
Frank Capra Jr. couldn’t be happier hosting screenings of his father’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for North Carolinians.
Dec. 21, 2003
Entertainment & Arts
Frank Capra Jr., son of the legendary Hollywood director, who rose through the ranks to become a movie producer and for the last decade was president of EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, N.C., has died.
Dec. 21, 2007
American Movie Classics carries Kenneth Bowser’s engaging 1997 documentary “Frank Capra’s American Dream” tonight, trimmed to 88 minutes from its original 109-minute version, which premiered theatrically last July.
April 21, 1998
Crisp DVD of ‘One Night’ restores look and sound of the Frank Capra classic.
Jan. 6, 2000
California
A Glendale Superior Court jury has awarded $1.25 million to the family of a student at Campbell Hall school in Studio City who died of hypothermia while sleeping in a tent on a cold, rainy night during a camping trip to Big Bear Lake.
Oct. 7, 1992
Frank Capra’s life and films are saluted at the Nuart, while Samuel Fuller gets the Cinematheque treatment.
July 31, 1997
Frank Capra, the multiple Academy Award winner whose everyman heroes symbolized the American spirit triumphing over mercenary or venal big business and big government, died Tuesday at his desert retirement home.
Sept. 4, 1991
Obituaries
Meanwhile, Capra’s ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ offers a restored print and tales from the set.
Feb. 3, 2000
In 1983, Michael Thomas was running the San Diego Film Society and invited legendary director Frank Capra, then 86, and his longtime cinematographer, Joseph Walker, to San Diego for a lecture and a screening of “Mr.
May 17, 1997