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Frank Capra (cropped)
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Columbia Pictures
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Wikimedia Commons
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Frank Capra, director, aboard the Rex
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NYWT&S staff photographer
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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卡普拉

Kǎpǔlā
proper noun #37,434

Meanings

  1. 1 Capra (Italian/English surname, transliteration)
  2. 2 Frank Capra (American film director)

About Frank Capra

1897–1991 · 导演 director

Italian-born American director of It Happened One Night and 生活多美好 (It's a Wonderful Life, 1946), warm stories of ordinary Americans. He won the Oscar for best director three times in the 1930s.

Also called  弗兰克·卡普拉

Examples

HSK 4
弗兰克·卡普拉拍过《生活多美好》。
Fúlánkè · Kǎpǔlā pāi guo 《 Shēnghuó Duō Měihǎo 》.
Frank Capra directed It's a Wonderful Life.
HSK 5
卡普拉是好莱坞黄金时代的导演。
Kǎpǔlā shì Hǎoláiwù huángjīnshídài de dǎoyǎn.
Capra was a director of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Tips

culture
The Italian word capra means 'goat'. During the Second World War he made the US Army's Why We Fight film series; one of its films, The Battle of China (1944), explained China's war against Japan to Americans.

Stroke Order

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