S. L. A. MARSHALL

Vintage, autograph sentiment to director Frank Capra

October 27, 1964

Signed: "S.L.A. Marshall"

"For my old friend and comrade-in-arms...Capra and his bride Lou: */

they have meant much in my life. / Con todo affection S.L.A. Marshall"

Condition: one small stain, otherwise very good

*Lucille Warner was married to Capra 1928-1984, her death.

S.L.A. Marshall (born Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian 

during WWII and the Korean War. His best-known and most controversal book was "Men Against Fire". 

Frank Capra was an Italian-American director, winner of three Best Director Academy Awards:

It Happened One night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938).

Film career from 1926-1961. Attended Caltech (then Thorpe College of Technology). He studied

 chemical engineering; graduated 1918. 

Capra was assigned to work directly under Chief of Staff

George C. Marshall and directed or co-directed seven documentary WWII information films. 

S.L.A. Marshall, born: 1900, Catskill, New York; died: 1977, El Paso, Texas. 

Frank Capra, born: 1897, Bisacquino, Palermo, Sicily; died: 1991, La Quinta, California.