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Article: Appreciation; It Was a Wonderful Life; Director Frank Capra Made the Movies That Warmed Everyday People
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 1991
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He was an immigrant who became a director who became a genre
who became a legend. Frank Capra's movies were of one mind and of
one heart: his.
"The art of Frank Capra is very, very simple," he said in 1982
when he won the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
"It's the love of people. And add two simple ideals to this love of
people - the freedom of each individual and the equal importance of
each individual - and you have the principle on which I've based all
my films."
Frank Capra died yesterday, in his sleep, at the age of 94, in
La Quinta, Calif. Although his childhood was spent in poverty and
his later years were marked by illness, and although he had been
inactive as ...