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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Frank Capra</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/frank-capra/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>PORGY AND BESS, FORREST GUMP, BAMBI, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: National Film Registry 2011 Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:09:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36358</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture winners The Lost Weekend (1945), Forrest Gump (right, 1994), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), along with the Walt Disney Studios' animated classic Bambi (1942), Charles Chaplin's silent comedy-drama The Kid (1921), and Howard Hawks' early screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934) are among the 25 &#34;culturally, historically or aesthetically&#34; significant movies just added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Directed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/porgy-and-bess-forrest-gump-bambi-national-film-registry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Amoral Barbara Stanwyck/BABY FACE, Kay Francis, Frank Capra: TCM Library of Congress Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-stanwyck-baby-face-kay-francis-will-rogers-frank-capra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-stanwyck-baby-face-kay-francis-will-rogers-frank-capra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:59:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35265</guid> <description><![CDATA[Silent ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: TCM's Library of Congress Tribute [Photo: Kay Francis, Leslie Howard in British Agent.] Schedule (ET) and synopses from the TCM website: 8:00 PM THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943). A composer finds inspiration in his wife's romantic cousin. Dir: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith. BW-112 mins. 10:00 PM BABY FACE (1933). A beautiful schemer sleeps her [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbara-stanwyck-baby-face-kay-francis-will-rogers-frank-capra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert Q&amp;A Pt.1: &#039;The Claudette Colbert Business&#039;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-paramount-the-claudette-colbert-business/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-paramount-the-claudette-colbert-business/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27575</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Wilcoxon, Claudette Colbert in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra Claudette Colbert: James Robert Parish Discusses the Legendary Paramount Star &#8211; Introduction You've been planning for some time a biography of Claudette Colbert. How did you become interested in Colbert's life story? As a very young teenager, I saw several of Claudette Colbert's films on TV and was fascinated by her verve, throaty voice, attractiveness, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-paramount-the-claudette-colbert-business/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert: Author James Robert Parish Discusses the Paramount Star</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:31:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/03/28/claudette-colbert-james-robert-parish-interview/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudette Colbert, Paramount star Those who remember Claudette Colbert, Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; featured player today, will likely picture a woman raising her skirt so as to hitch a ride in Frank Capra's 1934 Academy Award-winning comedy It Happened One Night. After all, Colbert's left leg immediately succeeds where Clark Gable's left thumb failed. [Claudette Colbert Movie Schedule.] Colbert, however, could get [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claudette-colbert-parish/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Review Pt.2 &#8211; Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-gary-cooper-jean-arthur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-gary-cooper-jean-arthur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:49:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26690</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Review Part I The acting in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is top notch. Cooper is, well, Gary Cooper &#8212; mixing strength and vulnerability in perfect amounts. Apart from his Lou Gehrig in Sam Wood's The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Mr. Deeds may be his best role. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-gary-cooper-jean-arthur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Review d: Frank Capra</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-frank-capra-gary-cooper/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-frank-capra-gary-cooper/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:49:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-by-frank-capra/</guid> <description><![CDATA[MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936) Direction: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Douglass Dumbrille, Lionel Stander, H. B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Seddon, Margaret McWade Screenplay: Robert Riskin; from Clarence Budington Kelland "Opera Hat" Oscar Movies Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Frank Capra By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: There is a tendency among some to think that all the art [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-frank-capra-gary-cooper/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Review Pt.2 &#8211; Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/it-happened-one-night-clark-gable-claudette-colbert/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/it-happened-one-night-clark-gable-claudette-colbert/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26685</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Review Part I It Happened One Night's well-known &#34;Walls of Jericho&#34; reference comes from a scene where Peter places a blanket across a rope to divide the room in which he and Ellie are staying. Frank Capra and Robert Riskin use it as a way to heighten the sexual provocations [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/it-happened-one-night-clark-gable-claudette-colbert/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Review d: Frank Capra</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/it-happened-one-night-frank-capra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/it-happened-one-night-frank-capra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:17:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/it-happened-one-night-frank-capra/</guid> <description><![CDATA[IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Direction: Frank Capra Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns Screenplay: Robert Riskin; from Samuel Hopkins Adams' short story &#34;Night Bus&#34; Oscar Movies Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: It is a very rare thing when a light-hearted comedy, something that is quintessentially the stuff of a &#34;good movie,&#34; breaches into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/it-happened-one-night-frank-capra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>METROPOLIS, Frank Capra, Agatha Christie: BFI Southbank Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metropolis-frank-capra-agatha-christie-and-then-there-were-none/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metropolis-frank-capra-agatha-christie-and-then-there-were-none/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:46:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25567</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (top); Jack Holt, Fay Wray in Frank Capra's Dirigible (middle); Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Roland Young, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson in René Clair's And Then There Were None (bottom) London's BFI Southbank will be screening several Frank Capra efforts today and on Saturday, in addition to films based on Agatha Christie's works and the restored Metropolis. Most notable among [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metropolis-frank-capra-agatha-christie-and-then-there-were-none/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Bertrand Tavernier Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frank-capra-martin-scorsese-terrence-malick-bertrand-tavernier/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frank-capra-martin-scorsese-terrence-malick-bertrand-tavernier/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:06:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23999</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frank Capra's American Madness, Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, Terrence Malick's Badlands, and Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de torchon are among the upcoming classics to be screened at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va.  Starring Walter Huston (father of John Huston, grandfather of Anjelica Huston), American Madness' theme remains as relevant today as it was nearly eight decades ago: banks' [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frank-capra-martin-scorsese-terrence-malick-bertrand-tavernier/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-capra-stewart/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-capra-stewart/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=14658</guid> <description><![CDATA[A newly restored print of Frank Capra's 1939 Best Picture nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, and Claude Rains, will be screened tonight, July 20, as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-capra-stewart/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10503</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies' month-long series &#34;Great Directors&#34; will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM's &#34;greats&#34; are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1937</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:07:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11618</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille FILM The Awful Truth d, scr: Leo McCarey Camille d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins The Hurricane d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe Lost Horizon d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin Night Must Fall d: Richard [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1936</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat FILM Follow the Fleet d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor Fury d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang Libeled Lady d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch Le Roman [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1934</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4329</guid> <description><![CDATA[Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street FILM The Barretts of Wimpole Street d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart The Count of Monte Cristo d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee The Gay Divorcee d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman Hide-out d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean Arthur on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-arthur-on-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-arthur-on-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=250</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actress Argentina Brunetti, a founding member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and a supporting player in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), died in Rome on Dec. 20. She was 98. Born in Buenos Aires, Brunetti came to Hollywood in 1937 to dub into Italian the voices of MGM stars Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer. She began acting in films about a decade [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/argentina-brunetti/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
