Frank Capra

“I have lived a most wonderful life, being given an extremely rare privilege, a forty-five-year ride on the magical carpet of Film!” So writes Frank Capra in “The Name Above the Title”, his voluminous autobiography published in 1971, 20 years before his death at age 94. In it he reminds the reader that he “helped create the golden era of films,” along Hollywood filmmakers of the thirties and forties, “who thrilled the world with their own works, creative giants in love with their medium, fiercely proud of it, fiercely jealous of it.