Frank Capra (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph McBride
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Hollywood, Citizenship, Filmmaking or filmmakers
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Frank Capra was able to revive his reputation by writing his autobiography, THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE, published by Macmillan in 1971, and was remembered thereafter as everybody’s favorite director. He went on to earn the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, and Joseph McBride was assigned to write the award show script in 1981, a research project that raised so many questions that McBride began to delve deeper in 1984, interviewing nearly two hundred people, many of whom had been contacted by no one else. The end result was McBride’s iconoclastic book, which gives...
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