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EPISODE · May 17, 2022 · 6 MIN

I Kiss the Ground

from The American Story

One of America's greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903. Growing up, he worked hard, excelled in school, and fell in love with American freedom and the American common man giving us such films as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life." 

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One of America's greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903. Growing up, he worked hard, excelled in school, and...

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