B efore World War II, Jimmy Stewart embodied the idyllic American in classics like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The ...

But now, after more than 30 times of watching the film, I’ve learned the Jimmy Stewart/Frank Capra collaboration was a critical flop. Honestly, I don’t know how I missed it. Maybe I was too ...

That, bewilderingly, is what happened to “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Frank Capra’s seasonal classic that many today regard as the greatest Christmas movie of all time. Donna Reed and James ...

When the film was released, Stewart was so angry and upset that he never worked with Oscar-winning co-star Donna Reed again. The film is about a good but troubled man, George Bailey, who is ...

A visionary, his films included “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive.” He also brought his skewed view to the ...

Such is the arc of Frank Capra’s 1936 comedy “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” starring Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds, a greeting-card poet from the fictional town of Mandrake Falls, Vt.

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