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Call No: 81CAP MCB
Author: McBride, Joseph
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 768 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; AUTHORSHIP; COLUMBIA PICTURES; HOLLYWOOD; DIRECTORS; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; CAPRA, FRANK; COHN, HARRY; RISKIN, ROBERT; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); LADY FOR A DAY (US, Frank Capra, 1933); LOST HORIZON (US, Frank Capra, 1937); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938)
Summary: "FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the first major biography of one of the greatest directors in Hollywood history, the man behind such classic films as IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [...] FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the result of more than seven years of work. It is drawn from extensive archival research and interviews with 175 people who knew or worked with Capra, as well as many hours of interviews with Capra himself. In this biography, Joseph McBride gives us the definitive portrait of one of our greatest filmmakers." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Filmography: p. [117]-731; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0671797883 (pbk.); 0671734946 : $27.50
LON: abn92038576; 8711584

Call No: 744 ROF
Author: Roffman, Peter, 1950; Purdy, Jim,
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; DEPRESSION IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; MADNESS IN FILMS; BAD GUYS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS; JEWS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKLISTING. USA; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS; WARNER BROS.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; LANG, FRITZ; BORZAGE, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; GARFIELD, JOHN; CAPRA, FRANK; VIDOR, KING; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936); CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932); DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937); FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948); GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933); STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937); THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938); GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951); LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950); LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932); LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934); MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932); OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934); PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949); PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934); RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936); [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940); MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954); YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351
ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)
LON: 1763505

Call No: 732 SEN
Author: Sennett, Ted
Place: New Rochelle, N.Y.
Publisher: Arlington House
PubDate: [1973]
PhysDes: 368 p. illus. 24 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938); HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (US, Preston Sturges, 1943)
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-356
ISBN: 0870001965
LON: 506387

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936)

Call No: 734.4 BER
Author: Bergman, Paul, 1943; Asimow, Michael
Place: Kansas City
Publisher: Andrews and McMeel
PubDate: c1996
PhysDes: xix, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: TRIALS IN FILMS; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988); EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988); INHERIT THE WIND (US, Stanley Kramer, 1960); MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1966); ONION FIELD, THE (US, Harold Becker, 1979); REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1990); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); BILLY BUDD (UK, Peter Ustinov, 1962); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); CAINE MUTINY, THE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1954); FEW GOOD MEN, A (US, Rob Reiner, 1992); PATHS OF GLORY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1957); ADAM'S RIB (US, George Cukor, 1949); [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); MY COUSIN VINNY (US, Jonathan Lynn, 1992); ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (US, Norman Jewison, 1979); COMPULSION (US, Richard Fleischer, 1959); IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (IE/UK/US, Jim Sheridan, 1993); LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE (US, William Dieterle, 1937); PHILADELPHIA (US, Jonathan Demme, 1993); SOMMERSBY (US, Jon Amiel, 1993); TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (US, Robert Mulligan, 1962); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939); MUSIC BOX (US, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1989); PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947); BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); PRESUMED INNOCENT (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1990); THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937); WRONG MAN, THE (US, Jim McBride, 1993); ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); STAR CHAMBER, THE (US, Peter Hyams, 1983); SUSPECT (US, Peter Yates, 1987); TRIAL BY JURY (US, Heywood Gould, 1994); [TWELVE] 12 ANGRY MEN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1956); CLASS ACTION (US, Michael Apted, 1991); LOSING ISAIAH (US, Stephen Gyllenhaal, 1995); MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, Les Mayfield, 1994); NUTS (US, Martin Ritt, 1987); VERDICT, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1982); WHOSE LIFE IS IT, ANYWAY? (US, John Badham, 1981); ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (US, William Dieterle, 1941); BLOOD OATH (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1990); HOUR OF THE PIG, THE (FR/UK, Leslie Megahey, 1993); YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS, THE (US, Vincent Sherman, 1959); LIBEL (UK, Anthony Asquith, 1959); KRAMER VS. KRAMER (US, Robert Benton, 1979); OX-BOW INCIDENT, THE (US, William Wellman, 1943); ON TRIAL (US, Terry Morse, 1939); I WANT TO LIVE! (US, Robert Wise, 1958); JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961); LET HIM HAVE IT (UK, Peter Medak, 1991); [TEN] 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (UK, Richard Fleischer, 1971); COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL, THE (US, Otto Preminger, 1955); BANANAS (US, Woody Allen, 1971); MURDER IN THE FIRST (US, Marco Rocco, 1995); TRIAL (US, Mark Robson, 1955); GUILTY AS SIN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1993); JAGGED EDGE (US, Richard Marquand, 1985); LETTER, THE (US, William Wyler, 1940); KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949); WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (US, Billy Wilder, 1957); ACT OF MURDER, AN (US, Michael Gordon, 1948); FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936); I CONFESS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1953); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (US, Irving Pichel, 1947)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-326) and index
ISBN: 0836210352 (pbk.)
LON: 11957271