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...NAME ABOVE THE TITLE by Frank Capra. 513 pages. Macmillan...
...formula seldom changed. At the end of every typical Frank Capra movie -Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, say, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-the hero, a generally shy but sturdy innocent, vanquished the villain, got the girl and reaffirmed once again the notion that all you really need in order to win out is spunk and some levelheaded determination...
...surefire fairy tale, the sort of thing that Depression audiences ached to believe, and one of Capra's many talents was that he could make it alt seem so tantalizingly true. As a film maker, Capra was an impassioned propagandist for the virtues of simple sentiment. As an autobiographer, he is somewhat more realistic...
...Capra's early life does sound like one of his scenarios. An immigrant Sicilian, one of seven kids, he has to take almost as many jobs as courses to get himself through school. His first movie work, directing a one-reel rendition of a Kipling poem, is a chance opportunity...
George Burns gave her a spot in his show. United Artists found a part in Frank Capra's A Pocketful of Miracles, and in State Fair her dark brown hair showed up as a cornea-shattering shade of red. A star, she drove up to her old high school in a yellow Cadillac convertible and strolled through the halls in a mink coat. But four years later, the bottom fell out. Her managers, in her version of it, were merely exploiting her sex appeal-and ineptly. With puppylike trust, Ann-Margret did as she was told. At 25, after...