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Kapitel: Frank Capra, Allein Gegen Die Mafia, Palermo Shooting, Luchino Visconti, Luigi Lo Cascio, Franco Merli, Franco ... Read more

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fine/sm. tack holes to white margins. Superb 8" x 10" studio portrait of Capra from his early years at Columbia. Photogr. Alfredo Valente rubb. stamp on verso. Binding is photograph. ... Read more

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Chapters: Frank Capra, Vincent R. Impellitteri, Lucky Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Vito Roberto Palazzolo, Francesco Crispi, Salvatore Giuliano, Vince Colletta, Gaetano Badalamenti, Santa Biondo, Giuseppe Impastato, Giuseppe Greco, Antonino Giuffrè, Renato Guttuso, John Stanfa, Mariano Rampolla, Pino Puglisi, Giusy Vitale, Vito Vitale, Vincenzo Ragusa, Gaspare Pisciotta, Salvatore Greco "The Engineer", Ignazio Buttitta, Vincenzo Chiarenza, Francesco Sabatini, Salvatore Vicari, Agostino Novello, Antonio Del Duca, Giuseppe Tornatore, Michelangelo Celesia, Frédéric François, Giuseppe Alessi, Benedetto Spera, Pietro Novelli, Rocco Chinnici, Giovanni Meli, Giacomo Del Duca, Francisco Minà Palumbo, Luigi Lo Cascio, Tommaso Geraci, Salvatore Gatto, Francesco Spoto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was an Italian mafioso who became boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. He was one of several national bosses gathering at the 1957 Apalachin Convention. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Gambino lived to the age of 74, when he died of a heart attack in bed, "in a state of grace", according to a priest who had given him the Last Rites of the Catholic Church. He had two brothers, Gaspare Gambino, who later married and was never involved with the Mafia, and Paolo Gambino, who was a caporegime (high ranking Mafia member) in his brother's family. Gambino was a native of the town Caccamo on the Italian island of Sicily. He was born to a family that belonged to the Honored Society. The Honored Society was slightly more complicated than the Black Hand of America, which was often confused with the American Mafia. The Black Hand, much like the pre-1920s Mafia, was...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=147972 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : La Vie Est Belle (Film, 1946), La Grande Muraille (Film, 1933), New York-Miami, Vous Ne L'emporterez Pas Avec Vous, the Miracle Woman, Monsieur Smith Au Sénat, Arsenic et Vieilles Dentelles, Horizons Perdus, L'homme de La Rue, L'extravagant Mr. Deeds, Milliardaire Pour Un Jour, La Course de Broadway Bill, Amour Défendu, La Grande Dame D'un Jour, L'enjeu (Film, 1948), Ladies of Leisure, si L'on Mariait Papa, La Blonde Platine, Un Trou Dans La Tête. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La vie est belle (It's a Wonderful Life) est un film américain de Frank Capra, sorti en 1946. Bedford Falls, petite ville de l'État de New York, la veille de Noël. De chaque foyer s'élève une prière. Les paroles murmurées avec ferveur concernent toutes le même homme - George Bailey -, qu'elles proviennent de la bouche de son épouse, de ses enfants, de ses amis et collègues... et de manière générale de tous ceux qui tiennent à lui. Les prières vont être exaucées et Clarence, un ange sans ailes est envoyé au secours de George afin de gagner ses ailes. Avec lui, nous revivons les années écoulées dans la vie de George. Ayant renoncé à son rêve d'enfant de devenir explorateur, pour reprendre la banque de son père, il a toujours consacré son énergie et son argent à l'amélioration des conditions de vie des habitants de la ville, en luttant contre le désir de puissance d'un homme d'affaires sans scrupules. Il fut également très utile pour son patron, monsieur Gowers, un pharmacien, car il empêcha le renvoi de ce dernier en refusant de livrer à un couple dont le fils était atteint d'une maladie très grave, un cachet empoisonné. Il sauva également son jeune frère Harry de la noyade au cours d'un concours de luge mais perdit l'usag...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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One of cinema's acclaimed director's, Frank Capra changed the face of cinema with such classics as "It Happened One Night", "Lost Horizon", "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life". This book includes the death and eulogies to this innovative director, producer and screenwriter, and covers all of Capra's work from the early silents through to his last film in 1961, "A Pocketful of Miracles". Interviews with Hollywood stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby and James Stewart, as well as extensive interviews with Capra himself, help to provide an insight into the man himself. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lady for a Day, Lost Horizon, Pocketful of Miracles, Arsenic and Old Lace, for the Love of Mike, Ladies of Leisure, Here Comes the Groom, You Can't Take It With You, Meet John Doe, the Nazis Strike, the Bitter Tea of General Yen, Divide and Conquer, the Strong Man, Dirigible, Platinum Blonde, State of the Union, the Matinee Idol, the Battle of Russia, the Battle of China, a Hole in the Head, American Madness, Broadway Bill, the Miracle Woman, Riding High, Rain or Shine, Flight, the Battle of Britain, the Power of the Press, Forbidden, Our Mr. Sun, Fultah Fisher's Boarding House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 167. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community. Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes it was initially a major disappointm...http://booksllc.net/?id=60164 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nazis Strike was the second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and with the Nazis as their latest incarnation. Hitler's plan for world domination is described in terms of Halford John Mackinder's Heartland Theory. In the Middle Ages a plague of slavery descended on the world. From the wilds of Mongolia rode a mighty army of fierce horsemen, led by Genghis Khan. Burning, looting, pillaging ... the barbarian horde swept across Asia and Eastern Europe. Genghis Khan conquered most of the world of the thirteenth century. Adolf Hitler was determined to outdo him, and conquer all the world of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World War II Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2472 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers significant events, topics, and people related to the World War II period. Provides the in-depth information, including biographical profiles and primary source materials. ... Read more

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years later. In its early years a minor player in Hollywood, Columbia began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant (who was shared with RKO Pictures). ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 587 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a comprehensive overview of the Great Depression, this wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on Depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society, and culture. ... Read more