Possible Clues:

• "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" director
• 'You Can't Take It With You' director
• International artist, creator of great pictures
• Director of ''It's a Wonderful Life''
• International artist and director
• ''Lost Horizon'' director, 1937
• 'The Name Above the Title' autobiographer, 1971
• 'Arsenic and Old Lace' director, 1944
• 'Meet John Doe' director, 1941
• Frank director who discovered it's a wonderful life, but you can't take it with you