10 Famous Directors You Didn't Know Had Really Weird Fetishes

3. Frank Capra Had A Strange Soft Spot For Mussolini

When you think of Frank Capra, you don't necessarily think of him as a fan of one of the worst dictators of all-time... you're usually too busy remembering some of his warm, entertaining and timeless motion pictures such as Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It Happened One Night and - of course - It's A Wonderful Life. You want to hear more about that Mussolini thing now, though, right? Well, despite the fact that it seems a tad crazy to think so, Frank Capra - purveyor of all things good and righteous - had a weird thing (read as: lust) for Benito Mussolini, a man he genuinely believed would save Italy from communism. Yes, the same Mussolini who killed millions of people. Capra was Italian-American, you see, and thus had an incentive. Can this really be classified as a fetish, you wonder? Isn't Capra's adoration more of a political preference? Um, well, maybe, but it certainly seems closer to a fetish - or, at the very least, a very weird obsession - when you learn that Capra had an oil painting of Mussolini hanging in his bedroom. Not the living room, mind you... but the bedroom.