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In Frank Capra: The early 1930s
Ladies of Leisure (1930) was the first of Capra’s films to star Barbara Stanwyck. In it she played a gold digger reformed by her love for a sensitive painter. When Capra adapted the 1928 Broadway hit Rain or Shine for film in 1930, he retained…
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