The Name Above The Title

I have just been to see my grandmother in a very Jewish play (I am descended from a long line of showbiz people :D), and she was very fantabiedoobie indeed. The theatre was called "The Palace Theatre" and as we walked in, my mum started singing "I was born in a trunk, at The Palace Theatre," from A Star Is Born. That is how classic-movie orientated my family is. After the performance, we went backstage to congratulate my grandmother, and I feel very honored to have been passed down a very special book. That book is The Name Above The Title by Frank Capra. It was given to her and my grandpa by a professor of film at a college somewhere, and it has that fantastic smell that old books have when they have been loved.

the book

It is a complete autobiography from the very beginning of his life. I am not sure if it is still in print, but it is very interesting. I have only started the first chapter (titled "It's About Time, You Bum!"), but it definitely looks very promising. There are lots of fantastic pictures in it, and I might have to scan them or something soon. It has a quote at the beginning that I really like.

"There are no rules in film making, only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness."

Frank Capra directed films such as It's A Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, and The Philadelphia Story (which is one of those films that I should have seen but haven't). 

Expect a review soonish the book is some 500 pages and the book is almost A4 paper sized, so it may take a while to finish considering I still have to finish Wuthering Heights.

~Bette