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Grand Scheme. The high sheen on Sun was due largely to one man, Hollywood's Oscar-winning Producer-Director Frank Capra, 58, who spent four years making the show. "It was a labor of love," he says. "I just wanted to prove science could be diverting." To Italian-born Showman Capra, a chemical-engineering graduate of Cal Tech, Mr. Sun is no documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case...
...Frank Capra's new science series...
...Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes...
...version has lost the social point of the old, along with other things. Dick Powell is at the megaphone, rather than Capra, and he uses the instrument less as a director should than as he did when he was a baby-faced crooner-to make things loud and corny. Further, the script has been thumbsily rewritten by Claude Binyon, and many of the sly little scenes have been converted into thwacking big musical numbers, set to some remarkably unmusical music. Both of the big names have been replaced by other big names (June Allyson and Jack Lemmon...
Died. Robert Riskin, 58, top screenwriter, who teamed with Director Frank Capra (1931-38) to turn out Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, winner of an Academy Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Fay Wray; after being partially paralyzed from a stroke since 1950; in Woodland Hills, Calif...