The best movies from classic Hollywood director Frank Capra include It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, and Lost Horizon.
Few filmmakers active during the Golden Age of Hollywood are quite as well-known and celebrated as Frank Capra. He first started making movies during the silent era, back in the early 1920s, and continued to work as a director for several more decades, eventually retiring in the mid-1960s. Throughout that time, he made a total of 50 feature films and documentaries, and proved to be very consistent when it came to the quality of his output.
13 'American Madness' It shouldn't be mixed up with the so-bad-it's-good cult classic Reefer Madness, though American Madness does have a similar name and was released in the same decade. It's somewhat unusual compared to other Frank Capra movies, given this one's a crime/gangster movie. 11 'Pocketful of Miracles' For his final film, Frank Capra made another movie with a title that referenced miracle, released 30 years on from The Miracle Woman. That film was Pocketful of Miracles, and being a dramedy, it also proved to be a little less grim, having a premise that sees a couple trying to convert a street beggar into a member of high society.
It's a solid blend of comedy and drama, especially for its time, and also stands out for being a film that contains one of the oldest first-time Oscar nominees of all time. May Robson earned her first Oscar nomination at the age of 75 for this film, and with her being born in 1858, she's also the earliest-born actress to ever receive a nomination at the Academy Awards.
6 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is one of Frank Capra's best-known movies, and one that's also aged surprisingly well. It's about a man whose life changes when he inherits a small fortune, and finds himself needing to watch his step in life, given how many people target him for all the money and power he now has.
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