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Frank Capra's American Dream

Duration:

115 min

Genres:

Documentary | Biography

IMDB rate:

Director:

Kenneth Bowser

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win

Details

Country: USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Ron Howard

Himself - Host and Narrator

Robert Altman

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Jeanine Basinger

Herself - Interviewee: Curator, Capra Archives, Weslayan University

Edward Bernds

Himself - Interviewee: Sound Technician / Director

Frank Capra Jr.

Himself - Interviewee: Producer (archive footage)

Tom Capra

Himself - Interviewee: Producer

Allen Daviau

Himself - Interviewee

André De Toth

Himself - Interviewee: Director (as André DeToth)

Richard Dreyfuss

Himself - Interviewee: Actor

Bill Duke

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Peter Falk

Himself - Interviewee: Actor

Amy Heckerling

Herself - Interviewee: Writer / Director

Marshall Herskovitz

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Arthur Hiller

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Michael Keaton

Himself - Interviewee: Actor

Angela Lansbury

Herself - Interviewee: Actor

Garry Marshall

Himself - Interviewee: Writer / Director

Joseph McBride

Himself - Interviewee: Capra Biographer

John Milius

Himself - Interviewee: Writer / Director

Martin Scorsese

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Richard Schickel

Himself - Interviewee: Film Critic

Oliver Stone

Himself - Interviewee: Director

Bob Thomas

Himself - Interviewee: Harry Cohn Biographer

Fay Wray

Herself - Interviewee

Jane Wyatt

Herself - Interviewee: Actor

Edward Zwick

Himself - Interviewee: Director

John Agar

Himself (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw

Himself (voice)

Frank Capra

Himself (archive footage)

Jeff Greenfield

Himself (voice)

Rudolf Hess

Himself (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

Himself (voice)

George Jessel

Himself (archive footage)

Ted Koppel

Himself (voice)

Leonard Maltin

Himself (voice)

Keith Morrison

Himself (voice)

Paul Muni

Himself (archive footage)

Luise Rainer

Herself (archive footage)

Shirley Temple

Herself (archive footage)

Irving Thalberg

Himself (archive footage)

Jean Adair

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Albertson

actor 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Alexander

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

actor 'You Can't Take It with You' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert J. Anderson

actor 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stanley Andrews

actor 'Meet John Doe' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edward Arnold

actor 'Meet John Doe' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean Arthur

actress 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nils Asther

actor 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mischa Auer

actror 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

actor 'You Can't Take It with You' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Art Baker

actor 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Bancroft

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Barrymore

actor 'You Can't Take It with You' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Warner Baxter

actor 'Broadway Bill' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hank Bell

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ward Bond

actor 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Carey

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jack Carson

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Catlett

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Claudette Colbert

actress 'It Happened One Night' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ronald Colman

actor 'Lost Horizon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Connolly

actor 'It Happened One Night' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gary Cooper

actor 'Meet John Doe' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bing Crosby

actor 'Riding High' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bette Davis

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Dingle

actor 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ruth Donnelly

actress 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglass Dumbrille

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jack Evans

actor 'It Happened One Night' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Glenda Farrell

actress 'Lady for a Day' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Faylen

actor 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Virginia Fox

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Clark Gable

Actor - 'It Happened One Night' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gloria Grahame

actress 'It's a Wonderful life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cary Grant

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ralph Graves

actor 'Submarine (archive footage) (uncredited)

Coleen Gray

actress 'Riding High' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Karolyn Grimes

actress 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Katharine Hepburn

actress 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eddie Hodges

actor 'A Hole in the head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jack Holt

actor 'Submarine' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edward Everett Horton

actor 'Lost Horizon (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Howard

actor 'Lost Horizon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Josephine Hull

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

actor 'American Madness' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sam Jaffe

actor 'Lost Horizon' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Isabel Jewell

actress 'Lost Horizon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Van Johnson

actor 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carolyn Jones

Actress 'A Hole in the Head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Roscoe Karns

actor 'It Happened One Night' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Guy Kibbee

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Lane

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Priscilla Lane

actress 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Langdon

actor 'The Strong Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hope Lange

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joi Lansing

actress 'A Hole in the Head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Peter Lorre

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Myrna Loy

actress 'Broadway Bill' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Raymond Massey

actor 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolphe Menjou

actor 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Miller

actress 'You Can't Take It with You' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Thomas Mitchell

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Murphy

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ken Murray

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eugene Pallette

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Franklin Pangborn

actror 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eleanor Parker

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Claude Rains

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ronald Reagan

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Donna Reed

actress 'It's a Wonderful Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Thelma Ritter

actress 'A Hole in the Head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edward G. Robinson

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

May Robson

actress 'Lady for a Day' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Christian Rub

actror 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mack Sennett

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Larry Simms

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Sinatra

Actor 'A Hole in the Head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ned Sparks

actor 'Lady for a Day' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Stander

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Stanwyck

actress 'Forbidden' (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Stewart

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dub Taylor

actor 'You Can't Take It withYou' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Spencer Tracy

actor 'State of the Union' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Raymond Walburn

actror 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

H.B. Warner

actor 'Lost Horizon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Pierre Watkin

actor 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Warren William

actor 'Lady for a Day' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Williams

actor 'Platinum Blonde' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Wray

actor 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Keenan Wynn

actor 'A Hole in the Head' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Narrator Howard states that one hour was edited out of 'Lost Horizon" by Columbis studio boss Harry Cohn without Capra's consent. In Capra's biography, "The Name above the Title" the director claims that that the preview audience laughed at the oriental melodramatics in the first two reels which preceded the airport panic that the film in its present state opens with. Capra states that the audience compared it unfavorably with Fu Manchu movies. An upset Capra claims he took the first two reels home and burned them in his furnace without consulting Cohn.