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When the film greats went to war

Before he made It’s a Wonderful Life, Capra bore witness to war

WHEN THE GREAT CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD filmmaker George Stevens put his career on hold to enter the service in 1943, he left behind a treasure box of entertainments like the luminous Astaire-Rogers musical Swing Time and

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