Frank Capra – David Vining, Author

1930s, 4/4, Best Picture Winner, Comedy, Frank Capra, Review

You Can’t Take It With You

March 1, 2023February 3, 2023 davidmvining

Frank Capra saw the play You Can't Take It with You by George Kaufman and Moss Hart and immediately wanted to make a film of it. Using his power as president of the Academy in contract negotiations with Harry Cohn, president of Columbia, to buy the rights and grant the assignment to Capra, an effort… Continue reading You Can’t Take It With You

1930s, 3.5/4, Best Picture Winner, Frank Capra, Review, Romantic Comedy

It Happened One Night

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 davidmvining

The first of three films that Frank Capra directed that won him the Best Director Oscar (Mr. Deeds Went to Town lost Best Picture to The Great Ziegfield in 1936), It Happened One Night is credited as at least one of the first, if not the first, screwball comedies. A genre born of the Hays… Continue reading It Happened One Night