Double Feature
You Can’t Take It with You
Academy Award® winner James Stewart (1940 Best Actor, The Philadelphia Story and 1985 Honorary Oscar®), Jean Arthur, Academy Award® winner Lionel Barrymore (1931 Best Actor, A Free Soul) and Edward Arnold star in this classic screwball comedy. Based on the phenomenally successful Kaufman-Hart play, You Can’t Take It With You was directed by Frank Capra and won two Academy Awards® (1938 Best Picture, Best Director) and garnered five more nominations. It was Capra’s third Oscar® for directing. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Stewart, the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life. (Sony Pictures)
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writer
- Screen play by Robert Riskin based upon the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
- Starring
- Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington
- Year
- 1938
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 126 minutes
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist Jean Arthur, becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives, and finally decides to give his fortune away because it’s so much trouble. This milestone film is one of the most charming and best-loved romantic comedies ever made. (Sony Pictures)
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writer
- Screen play by Robert Riskin, story by Clarence Budington Kelland
- Starring
- Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille
- Year
- 1936
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 116 minutes