Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House
It Happened One Night
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12m
Directed by Frank Capra • 1921 • United States
The 1921 silent short FULTAH FISHER’S BOARDING HOUSE, based on the Rudyard Kipling poem “The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding House,” was the first film directed by Frank Capra. Set in a boardinghouse, it’s about a girl known as Anne of Austria, played by Mildred Owens. It is presented here with a new score composed and performed by Donald Sosin.
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