Frank Capra Week starring Jean Harlow
Loretta Young , Robert Williams
Stew Smith, a young reporter, is sent to investigate a breach of promise case involving a very beautiful and very rich New York society girl. Stew promptly falls in love with the subject of his story.
Director FRANK CAPRA
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A comedy film series starring
If I Were a Rich Man
It is unfortunate for Chico that he pops the question to a girl who is looking for a rich husband.
An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant
with Toni Arthur, Carol Chell, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton, Henry McKenzie
Brian and Company play away with music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
Hey You, a BBC record of songs from the programme, No REC 209, is available from record shops, price £1.79
The Price Fixers: does the Price Commission actually save the British housewife any money?
A closer look at the politicians, tactics and progress of Parliament. Presented by PETER HILL
Editor JOHN ANDERSON
Hunt Saboteurs Association;
Margaret Rae and Coral Polge
Swansea v The Australians
The sixth Wallabies, having been comprehensively beaten by Cardiff, within three days shocked the Welsh fans by achieving a magnificent draw against the fancied cup holders Llanelli. On this, the Australians' third match over the border, the tourists feel that in spite of the inspiring leadership of the Wales and Swansea captain MERVYN DAVIES they could gain their first victory in the principality.
Commentator at St Helen's
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Director dewi GRIFFITHS
Series producer BILL TAYLOR
Weather
A series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC regions and now seen for the first time throughout the United Kingdom.
Tonight from BBC North Brass Roots
From the series that looked at the grass roots world of Yorkshire brass bands, its music and musicians - the versatility and virtuosity of the JAMES SHEPHERD VERSATILE BRASS Conductor RAY WOODFIELD Introduced by John Dunn
Producer CHRIS WRIGHT
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg
The British Theatre of the Deaf
There are over a million deaf people in this country. It is, perhaps, not too surprising that there should be a theatre company which puts on productions in sign mime, a theatrical form of the deaf sign-language.
What is surprising is the extraordinary power of the mime language they use. It is difficult not to be moved by the expressiveness of the performers' faces and gestures. The Company are very aware that the whole community can enjoy their work, not just the deaf. They insist that we take note of their name: it is not called * Theatre for' but ' Theatre of the Deaf.'
2nd House talks to members of the company and shows extracts from their repertoire. Taking part:
PAT KEYSELL , MARIA O'REILLY
ROSE ALEXANDER , ALEXA POVAH IAN CHANDLER , TERRY RUANE
SARAH GRAY
ISSY SCHLISSELMAN
LYDIA HANDSCOMB , JEAN ST CLAIR CHRIS HARROWELL , JOHN STONIER
Director stephany MARKS
Producer Tristram POWELL Assistant editor TONY CASH Editor BILL MORTON
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The Men Who Made The Movies
This week BBC2 highlights the work of Frank Capra , director of some of the most successful and influential Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
In this programme, Capra - ' First get your audience laughing then they will accept a moral tale'reminisces about his career, from early beginnings as a lowly gag-writer for Mack Sennett , to his Oscar-winning days with Columbia, where his talents helped to turn a tiny studio into one of the giants of the industry.
With excerpts from American Madness, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe , Lost Horizon, Arsenic and Old Lace, It's a Wonderful Life. Narrated by CLIFF ROBERTSON
Written, directed and produced by RICHARD SCHICKEL. A WNET production
Weather
People Make Television Tonight: Take Five Girls
Presented by five 16-year-old girls from a mixed comprehensive school at Crowthorne, Berkshire. They have had exactly four weeks to select a subject, learn about film and make their programme. Tonight they show the result-which they say is ' about their hopes and fears at this stage of their lives '. What does the future hold for them?
Made by the public in co-operation with the BBC Community Programme Unit
FrarA Capra Week starring
Barbara Stanwyck Nils Asther
Walter Connolly
Megan Davis , an American girl, comes to China in the early 1930s to marry missionary Bob Strike. She finds a country torn by civil war and meets the mysterious, and very handsome bandit leader General Yen. A largely neglected Capra film, and. in its day, a controversial East-West love story.
Producer and director FRANK capra . Films; page 11
