- Title Pages
- Also by Joseph McBride
- Dedication
- 1. “I felt nothing”
- 2. “I hated america”
- 3. “A terrible wop”
- 4. “Cap”
- 5. “I’m from Hollywood”
- 6. The Gag Man
- 7. “Marrying the harlot”
- 8. “The Man in the Street”
- 9. American Madness
- 10. “The catastrophe of Success”
- 11. “A Sense of responsibility”
- 12. “The doghouse”
- 13. “Columbia’s Gem”
- 14. “My ancestors couldn’t; I can”
- 15. “We’re the Front Office”
- 16. “That fellow Capra”
- 17. Liberty
- 18. “I have no cause”
- 19. “The Judas pain”
- 20. A Reputation
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Sources
- Filmography
- Index
- Plates
. “We’re the Front Office”
. “We’re the Front Office”
- Chapter:
- (p.425) 15. “We’re the Front Office”
- Source:
- Frank Capra
- Author(s):
McBride Joseph
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter, which focuses on Capra’s career after severing ties with Columbia in October 1939, describes the making of the films Meet John Doe and Arsenic and Old Lace. On December 12, 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor, Capra agreed to join the Signal Corps with a major’s commission. According to Capra, joining the army not only enabled him to avoid signing “enslaving” Hollywood deals, it also “gave one a superior aura of patriotism and self-sacrifice.”
Keywords: Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, Meet John Doe, Old Lace, army
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- Title Pages
- Also by Joseph McBride
- Dedication
- 1. “I felt nothing”
- 2. “I hated america”
- 3. “A terrible wop”
- 4. “Cap”
- 5. “I’m from Hollywood”
- 6. The Gag Man
- 7. “Marrying the harlot”
- 8. “The Man in the Street”
- 9. American Madness
- 10. “The catastrophe of Success”
- 11. “A Sense of responsibility”
- 12. “The doghouse”
- 13. “Columbia’s Gem”
- 14. “My ancestors couldn’t; I can”
- 15. “We’re the Front Office”
- 16. “That fellow Capra”
- 17. Liberty
- 18. “I have no cause”
- 19. “The Judas pain”
- 20. A Reputation
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Sources
- Filmography
- Index
- Plates
