Frank CapraThe Depression's Not Depressing… If You Watch the Right MoviesThis may sound surprising but the Depression was a pretty miserable time. People didn't have a whole lot of money, and no...

Robert RiskinFrank Capra is pretty famous still, and Jimmy Stewart remains a household name. But Robert Riskin? Shout his name in the dead of night and the owls will echo back, "Who?"But Riskin was...

Columbia PicturesBack in the 1920s and 1930s, Columbia Pictures was a joke. Of the big movie companies, Columbia was the least prestigious and had the worst reputation. Columbia movies had glasses...

Big Budget Classic Hollywood You Can't Take It With You was originally a play, staged entirely in the Sycamore house. You still get the Sycamore house in the film of course—but you get so much mo...

Dimitri TiomkinMemorable film scores are usually thought of as being big sweeping affairs; the orchestra swells as the Death Star does its death-y thing, or the strings go nutty as the murderer clo...

You Can't Take It With You was super-popular in 1938—but it doesn't involve starships or swords or an ongoing franchise. Old movie fans appreciate it, but it's not an active, squeeing fandom kind...