Frank Capra Jr.

It's a wonderful and busy life for Frank Capra, Jr., president of EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, currently the largest motion picture studio east of Hollywood. A second-generation filmmaker, Capra is the son of the late Lucille Rayburn Warner Capra and world-renowned director, Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, who is best known as director of the classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He is the eldest of three children that include brother Tom and sister Lucille. While growing up, the Capra children had the best of both worlds: relatively normal lives with friends balanced by dinners with guests who could include Barbara Stanwyck,Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore or Gary Cooper. Capra has said that growing up in a show-business household seldom interfered with holiday time and family life, for which he credits his father and mother. He has been active in the film industry for over four decades. Capra did not start out to be a filmmaker. It wasn't until