Frank Capra : : the Early Collection

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Call Number: DVD Drama Frank
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Title from box.
Ladies of leisure based on the play by Milton Herbert Gropper ; Rain or Shine based on the play by James Gleason, Maurice Marks ; Miracle woman based on the play Bless you sister by John Meehan and Robert Riskin ; The bitter tea of General Yen based on the novel by Grace Zaring Stone.
Bonus features for Ladies of leisure: audio commentary by film historian Jeremy Arnold, stills, lobby card, TCMDb article, Frank Capra biography.
Bonus features for Rain or shine: Michel Gondry on Rain or Shine, stills, posters and lobby cards, TCMDb article, international version.
Bonus features for Miracle woman: Ron Howard on The miracle woman, stills, photographs, lobby cards, TCMDb article.
Bonus features for Forbidden: audio commentary by film historian Jeanine Basinger, stills, photographs, posters, lobby cards, TCMDb article.
Bonus features for Bitter tea of General Yen: Defining Capra's early style with Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard, stills, posters, lobby cards, TCMDb article, a behind-the-scene production short.
Disc 1. Ladies of leisure / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; produced by Harry Cohn ; directed by Frank R. Capra (100 min.) -- Disc 2. Rain or shine / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; produced by Harry Cohn ; dialogue and continuity, Jo Swerling and Dorothy Howell ; directed by Frank Capra (88 min.) -- Disc 3. Miracle woman / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Frank R. Capra production ; produced by Harry Cohn ; screen play and dialogue by Jo Swerling ; director, Frank Capra (90 min.) -- Disc 4. Forbidden / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; a Frank R. Capra Production ; produced by Harr Cohn ; story by Frank Capra ; adaptation and dialogue, Jo Swerling ; directed by Frank R. Capra (85 min.) -- Disc 5. Bitter tea of General Yen / a Columbia production ; Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Frank Capra production ; screen play, Edward Paramore ; directed by Frank R. Capra (87 min.).
Ladies of leisure: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, Marie Prevost.
Rain or shine: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard.
The miracle woman: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy.
Forbidden: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy.
The bitter tea of General Yen : Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori.
Ladies of leisure: During the flapper era, a young woman tries to ensnare her confirmed bachelor beau. Meanwhile, her brother falls for a woman with a dark past.
Rain or shine: A young woman inherits her father's financially troubled circus.
Miracle woman: Based loosely on the life of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. After Florence Fallon's father is fired from the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses faith. She teams up with Horsby, a con man, and begins faking miracles for profit. The love and trust of a blind man restores her faith in God and her fellow man.
Forbidden: Tells the story of an adulterous affair between a librarian Barbara Stanwyck and a wealthy married man.
The bitter tea of General Yen: A tragic tale of a Chinese warlord's unrequited love for an American missionary, set during China's Civil War.
DVD; NTSC; region 1; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0 mono; restored and remastered.
Contents: Ladies of leisure. -- Rain or shine. -- God bless you sister. -- Bitter tea of General Yen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Bitter tea of General Yen: early interracial romance; Forbidden: lascivious librarian submitted by willow on April 12, 2016, 7:21pm "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" includes a relationship between Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck) and Chinese warlord General Yen (Nils Asther); the love scene occurs in a dream. The review in the New York Times noted "Mr. Asther's make-up is impressive, with slanting eyes and dark skin. He talks with a foreign accent." Yen's concubine is played by Toshia Mori, a Japanese immigrant.

The film was made prior to the Hays code, which banned depictions of miscegenation; the "indecency" of this film led to some public outrage.

Another film in this collection is "Forbidden," which features Barbara Stanwyck as a librarian having a relationship with a married man.