Icare4America on Nostr: When he was in his early 20s, chemical engineer Frank Capra was working odd jobs near ...

When he was in his early 20s, chemical engineer Frank Capra was working odd jobs near San Francisco such as pruning fruit trees and selling books door to door. Then he saw a 1922 newspaper ad: Workers were needed at a gymnasium to help adapt a Rudyard Kipling poem into a silent short film With confidence, Capra — who had grown up in Los Angeles but possessed no cinematic ties — told the production he was from Hollywood, nabbing his first directorial gig, en route to helming several classic films