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That year the USIA also produced “The Man Above the Title,” four one-hour videotapes of interviews with Mr. Capra including clips from his various films.
No one who has seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” or his other inspirational films can doubt the director’s great humanity. Mr. Scott said he lived his own life in much the same way as his characters, who portrayed idealized values.,
“There wasn’t a phoney bone in his body — he was totally real. In fact, he was so real a lot of Hollywood people didn’t believe it quite,” said Mr. Scott.
“He saw in people the qualities he idealized in humanity, such as love of family, love of country, and love of one another,” he said.
Many of his female characters, Mr. Capra told Mr. Scott, were based on Lu, his wife of many years (and onetime secretary). “He saw in her the qualities of womanhood at its best and most attractive,” said Mr. Scott.
During the early ’60s Mr. Capra left Hollywood’s soundstages because, said Mr. Scott, the director “had said what he wanted to say.”
“He was a perfectionist and felt directing was a young man’s game. When he could not longer do it the way he wanted, he gave it up,” said Mr. Scott.
Working with Mr. Capra on the reissue of the “Why We Fight” film series, Mr. Scott came to recognize the director’s immense role in motivat
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