Martial arts comedy star Jackie Chan (loosely) remade Lady for A Day in 1989 under the title Qiji (USA title "Mr. Canton and Lady Rose"). Lady for a Day Warren William May Robson Guy Kibbee (1933) Frank Capra's story of an apple peddler who poses as a socialite to impress the daughter she hasn't seen since birth. … . At its center is May Robson's performance. LADY FOR A DAY 1933 . Lady for a Day has a similar theme in some ways, as people from wildly different backgrounds are thrown together by circumstances and play out a complicated charade. The film was also nominated for Best Actress (May Robson) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Riskin). On May 1, 1939, May Robson and Jean Parker performed a radio version of Lady for a Day for Lux Radio Theater. His subsequent embarrassment at the 1934 Oscar ceremonies has now passed into Hollywood legend, but he made up for this debacle with his Oscars sweep for IT … Lady for a Day is a delight, with several superb performances, funny dialogue, warm sentiment, a bit of pre-Code raciness, lovely cinematography, and on and on. In the Western liturgical year, Lady Day is the traditional name in some English-speaking countries of the Feast of the Annunciation, which is celebrated on 25 March, and commemorates the visit of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he informed her that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.. And it also has the same blend of comedy and underlying poignancy. Lady for a Day is the film with which Frank Capra hoped to enter the Big Leagues by taking home a shelf-full of Academy Awards. Lady for a Day: All the good things we could do “Fine mess you got everyone into.” I’ve always felt kinda bad for director Frank Capra. Lady for a Day was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first time Columbia Pictures scored a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Capra clearly understood this; note how his camera rarely cuts away from her in close-up, even when a cutaway would normally be called for. Lady for a Day Synopsis: Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a member of New York's high society. A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a Lady for a Day asks the spectator to believe in the improbable. The young director had been laboring at Columbia Pictures’ Poverty Row Studio, churning out 18 films in less than six years. It's Hans Christian Andersen stuff written by a hard-boiled journalist and transferred to the screen by trick-wise Hollywoodites. Lady for a Day represented a watershed in the career of Frank Capra. He’s remembered more by people who’ve only seen a handful of his movies– usually his feel-good films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s A Wonderful Life— than anyone who’s examined his filmography. He had moved from low-budget programmers (That Certain Thing) to A-pictures (or what passed for A-pictures at Columbia, like Submarine) . With Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell. . Directed by Frank Capra.