Frank Capra 1959-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 1)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, who won five Oscars in the 1930s for films that embodied the pre-World War II notion of American exceptionalism, was pushed into semi-retirement by the early 50s by changes in tastes and political priorities. Capra was brought back to the Hollywood director’s chair by Frank Sinatra in the 1960s, but Capra quickly became embittered by an industry that he felt had left him behind, and in 1971 published an autobiography airing grievances about an industry that he believed was “stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the 'patronage' of deviates and masturbators.” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You must be a case are just a key
0:03.0	Acky still a key Welcome to a new season of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:41.0	I'm your host, Karina Longworth. And this is the first full episode of our new season. The Old Man is
0:51.3	still alive.
0:56.0	Is Hollywood dead?
0:57.7	No, I don't think so.
1:00.5	Many years ago, when I first started making pictures,
1:03.3	being in a film business was a little bit disreputable.
1:07.6	I hate wives and pictures just as much as I do, sex and incest.
1:10.4	Old stories I've forgotten mercifully.
1:12.5	I've had such a good time in my life.
1:14.9	It wouldn't bother me a bit if I died at any time.
1:16.9	I think it's up to you, younger fellas, right now.
1:20.5	There's one thing that I hate more than not being taken seriously is to be taken too seriously.
1:22.5	They're being sued by women's lips.
1:24.4	And I'm still alive to tell the tale.
1:34.4	In case you missed it,
1:39.4	we previously released a long trailer slash short intro episode for this season,
1:40.9	explaining what it's all about
1:42.5	and why it's called The Old Man is Still Alive.
1:48.0	In short, The Old Man is still alive is about 14 directors who got their start near the beginning
1:53.9	of the studio system, who were still alive and working in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, as the studio system was falling apart amidst massive
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