Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique

Frank Capra was the first to receive five Oscars in 1934 for 'New York-Miami', a comedy with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. Three decades after his arrival on Ellis Island, at the dawn of the 20th century, the little Sicilian immigrant has not finished savoring his American dream, the first also to win three times the Oscar for best director. Francesco Rosario Capra was 6 years old when his parents left Bisacquino, their Sicilian village, in the hope of a better life. Settled with his family in a Los Angeles ghetto, he enters Mack Sennett's studio as a gag man in the early 1920s. Recruited by the producer Harry Cohn, who signed him to his first films for Columbia, Francesco, now Frank, will skillfully go from silent to talking.