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It's a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra

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It's a Wonderful Life Quotes
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It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 film about an angel-in-training who gives a despondent man a look at what the world would be like if he had never been born. Directed by Frank Capra . Screenplay by Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , and Frank Capra ....


Director Biography

Name: Frank Capra
Birth Date: May 18, 1897
Death Date: September 3, 1991
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American, Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: filmmaker

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Biography of Frank Capra
1494 words, approx. 5 pages
Filmmaker Frank Capra (1897-1991) was 1930s Hollywood's top director, creating several immensely popular movies that captured the mood of the Depression-era United States and earning more Academy Award nominations than any of his contemporaries. "Capraco...
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Biography of Frank Capra
3356 words, approx. 11.2 pages
Director, writer, and producer Frank Capra, who made over fifty movies in a career spanning almost four decades, is best remembered for showcasing the virtues of ordinary people in sentimental human comedies, films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, w...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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It's a Wonderful Life Information
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It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly after World War II...


News and Journals
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Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
It's a Wonderful Life'
11/15/2007: 940 words, approx. 3 pages
A beloved movie classic comes to the stage in CV's It's a "wonderful" play. It can't be anything but, since the play is "It's a Wonderful Life," based on the classic Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart movie that is requisite holiday viewing for millions....
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sichting's wonderful life
02/07/2003: 589 words, approx. 2 pages
MARQUETTE Sichting's wonderful life By TODD ROSIAK of the Journal Sentinel staff Friday, February 7, 2003 His earliest basketball memories include Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. As a teenager, he got to know Kevin Garnett. Now he's a...
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The New York Observer
The Morning Read: Monday, December 31, 2007
12/31/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages
The New York Times expands on yesterday's Washington Post story about Michael Bloomberg's January 7 meeting in Oklahoma by reporting that he is putting in place a "turnkey" presidential campaign in case he decides to run. Slate says that story is “bizarrely sequestered in the...
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AP News
Studio head Frank Capra Jr. dies
12/21/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pages
Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. He was 73.Capra Jr. died Wednesday night at a hospital in Philadelphia, said Bill Vassar, the executive vice...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James Agee
465 words, approx. 2 pages
One important function of good art or entertainment is to unite and illuminate the heart and the mind, to cause each to learn from, and to enhance, the experience of the other. Bad art and entertainment misinform and disunite them. Much too often ["It's a Wonderful Life"] appeals to the heart at the expense of the mind; at other times it urgently demands of the heart that it treat with contempt the mind's efforts to keep its integrity; at still other times the heart is simply use...
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Critical Essay by Robin Wood
460 words, approx. 2 pages
The most overtly presented of the … structural oppositions [in It's a Wonderful Life] is that between the two faces of Capitalism, benign and malignant: on the one hand, the Baileys (father and son) and their Building and Loan Company, its business practice based on a sense of human needs and a belief in human goodness; on the other, Potter …, described explicitly as a spider, motivated by greed, egotism and miserliness, with no faith in human nature. Potter belongs to a very deeply roo...
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Essay Grade: 87%
It's a Wonderful Life
795 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay shows how a man finds claritity in his life, through the financial stress, withe the help of his guardian angel in the classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life."


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