It's story for the ages. The man who brought iconic classics to the big screen, including his three Academy Award winners— It Happened One Night , Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can't Take It With You —has a life story that's as remarkable as any movie he ever made, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life .

Frank Capra's origin story is itself a classic American story. And a classic love story, too. Not just his love of people and the medium he would come to master—film—but his love of America. His love of the country that adopted him.

Indeed, Capra so loved his country that he served, at the height of his career, directly under Chief of Staff General George Marshall (the most senior officer commanding the U.S. Army) to help bring to li

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