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J! Archive - Show #5117, aired 2006-12-05  (Alex: Featuring films from a new box set, which is coming out today, as a ... Capra went to the Lincoln Memorial for inspiration before shooting...
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Lincoln Memorial - Wikipedia  For uses of Lincoln Monument see Lincoln. For the Memorial Building in Kentucky, see ..... 1939: In a key scene in the Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, ... Simpson goes to the Memorial hoping to be inspired by the spirit of Lincoln. ... In the Allied Campaign Lincolns head was replaced by a head of Stalin before...
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In Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Frank Capra stood up for a simple ...  (The unpublished book the film is based on, Lewis R. Foster's The ... But Capra never wanted to inform his audience; he wanted to inspire them. .... guest at a White House press conference shortly before shooting was scheduled to commence. ... Mr. Smith goes to the Lincoln Memorial when he finds his faith shaken, and is...
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The Capra Touch - Harvard Film Archive  Apr 11, 2014 ... Perhaps Capra's most daring film is The Bitter Tea of General Yen, a love ... This triumph was repeated with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which .... But two 'happenings' during the shooting of It Happened One Night may be worth noting. ... I left the Lincoln Memorial with this growing conviction about our film:...
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The politics, press, star, and legacy of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington  Noel: There's a lot to talk about with Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, .... And even if it does get shot down, that just means one little crick in one .... I don't know whether Frank Capra cast him in part because he's built like Abraham Lincolnthe film ..... I've never felt inspired to ask Lincoln a question at the Memorial because...
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Top 10 Frank Capra Movies | Pretty Clever Films  Jul 3, 2013 ... I include this flick here as a curiousity, more than a shining beacon of ... I don't exactly love Arsenic and Old Lace because I find it a little shrill and ... You Can't Take it With You earned Capra his 3rd Oscar for Best Director ... Look up screwball comedy in the dictionary and you'll find It Happened One Night.
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history of the motion picture | Britannica.com  Mar 11, 2016 ... Early years, 18301910 Origins The illusion of motion pictures is based on the ... Muybridge and Marey, in fact, conducted their work in the spirit of ... U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site ... Edison opted not to file for international patents on either his camera or...
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Clint Eastwood's Riff on Charlie 'Bird' Parker - NYTimes.com  Published: January 17, 1988 ... Mr. Eastwood is standing on New York's 52d Street at the moment when it became the jazz capital of the universe. ... of the legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker, is the 13th movie Clint Eastwood has directed. .... ''Bird'' is only the second movie he has directed but not acted in, the other being...
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Abraham Lincoln Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  ABRAHAM LINCOLN (United Artists, 1930), directed by movie pioneer D.W. .... And Walter Huston is much more Lincolnesque than Henry Fonda would be ten ... by the time he made his first all-talking film, "Abraham Lincoln," he was in the...
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The Rocky Statue and the Rocky Steps  Visit Philadelphia ...  The Rocky Statue and the Rocky Steps  better known as the Art Museum ... Visiting the statue, running up the steps and taking a picture at the top is ... Originally created for Rocky III, the sculpture is now a real-life monument to a celluloid hero. ... After filming for the movie completed, Stallone donated the statue to the City...
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News Release: Concord Museum Exhibit, From the Minuteman to ...  The talk, Artists' Homes and Studios as Archive and Romance, will be offered in ... From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial: The Timeless Sculpture of Daniel ... and includes some rarely displayed objects from his Chesterwood studio that ... in the idyllic hamlet of Glendale near Stockbridge, Mass., the property and its...
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Film Notes - The Maltese Falcon & Exterior Night - University at Albany  (American, 1941, 101 minutes, b/w, 35 mm) ... .Kasper Gutman the Fat Man ... The Maltese Falcon, into his first film as a director, he had to be reminded ... THE MALTESE FALCON's famous epitaph -- "the stuff that dreams are made of" ... Huston's debts to his own brilliant debut film remained clear throughout his working life.
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Abraham Lincoln Bust | Architect of the Capitol | United States Capitol  Apr 29, 2016 ... History of the Supreme Court .... In this bust by Gutzon Borglum, Abraham Lincoln's head seems to emerge from the ... The bust and pedestal were on display in the Rotunda for many years. ... He began work at Mount Rushmore in 1927; the sculpture there was completed after his death by his son, Lincoln.
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The Capra Touch - Harvard Film Archive  Apr 11, 2014 ... And so, Meet John Doe, my first completely independent film ..... And It's a Wonderful Life is my memorial to you! ... Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: The Lincoln Myth on Film  Nov 30, 2012 ... Ralph Ince played the first known on-screen Lincoln, in 1908's The .... Lincoln (played with sloppy charm by Walter Huston) seems to age before us, .... Neither Huston, Fonda, nor Massey quite reach Daniel Day's level, but all three ... The Hall of Presidents Abe is the King of Myth Lincolns, and it took the...
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Al Capone - Pinterest  your own Pins on Pinterest. | See more about Al Capone, Gangsters and Hoodie. ... Picture take of Al Capone on his graduation day before his scar. His father Gabriel sitting to the left of him. (From the book ...... Al Capone's Soup Kitchen...opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931. ... I wonder if there was a vault inside. Al...
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The Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.  The massive sculpture of Lincoln faces east toward a long reflecting pool. ... New York architect Henry Bacon modeled the memorial in the style of a Greek temple. The classic design features 36 Doric columns outside, symbolizing the states in ... The finished statue is 19 feet tall, carved of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble.
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Washington, D.C. Memorials and Landmarks - Fact Monster  Construction of the building started in 1792, and its design was modified several ... Architect Henry Bacon modeled the marble, granite and limestone building after the ... A white marble statue of President Lincoln sits in the central chamber. ... The 36 Doric columns on the outside of the memorial represent the number of...
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Model of the Lincoln Memorial Statue in Daniel Chester French's ...  Sep 16, 2013 ... Home; Neighborhoods ... Picture of Daniel Chester French in his studio with Lincoln Memorial statue ... Sculptor Daniel Chester French is shown in his studio working on a ... Here is a picture of French's work, now sitting in the Lincoln ... Check out this recent post of Lincoln's statue overlooking the I Have a...
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J! set 20 Flashcards | Quizlet  HOLLYWOOD QUOTES Frank Capra dubbed this director of "The Birth of a Nation" "The Poor Man's Shakespeare". D.W. Griffith.
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I Have a Dream - Wikipedia  Martin Luther King Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. ... Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.