Self Realization Publications: Tools: Comunication : VIDEO All Too Wonderful: Frank Capra and James Stewart In 1940s American cinema, they were made for each other. This magnificent program captures how Frank Capra used James Stewart to project a message of an ideal America, perhaps best illustrated in their 1946 collaboration, It’s a Wonderful Life. It also details their biographies and first meeting on the set of 1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Stewart’s later career is examined—primarily his collaborations with Hitchcock on Rope, Rear Window, and Vertigo—but the program argues that Stewart’s time with Capra produced a cinematic "ideal vision of what man could be."

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All Too Wonderful: Frank Capra and James Stewart

In 1940s American cinema, they were made for each other. This magnificent program captures how Frank Capra used James Stewart to project a message of an ideal America, perhaps best illustrated in their 1946 collaboration, It’s a Wonderful Life. It also details their biographies and first meeting on the set of 1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Stewart’s later career is examined—primarily his collaborations with Hitchcock on Rope, Rear Window, and Vertigo—but the program argues that Stewart’s time with Capra produced a cinematic "ideal vision of what man could be."

Copyright date: 2001

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