You Can't Take It With You (film)

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You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It with You 1938 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Frank Capra
Produced by Frank Capra
Screenplay by Robert Riskin
Based on You Can't Take It With You (play) 
by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
Starring
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Editing by Gene Havlick
Studio Columbia Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)
  • August 23, 1938 (1938-08-23) (USA)
Running time 126 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget US$1,644,736 (est.)
Box office
  • US$2,137,575 (US rentals)
  • US$5,295,526 (Int'l rentals)

You Can't Take It With You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.,[1] the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

The film received two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years, following It Happened One Night in 1934 and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. It was also the highest-grossing picture of the year.

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Plot [edit]

Alice (Jean Arthur), the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, led by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), falls in love with Tony Kirby (James Stewart). His wealthy banker father, Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold), and his snobbish mother (Mary Forbes), strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things do not turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Cast [edit]

Production Notes [edit]

  • Barrymore's infirmity was incorporated into the plot of the film. He was on crutches the entire movie, which was said to be due to an accident from sliding down the banister. In reality, it was due to his increasing arthritis – earlier in the year he had been forced to withdraw from the movie A Christmas Carol.
  • Ann Miller, who plays Essie Carmichael (Ed Carmichael's wife), was only fifteen years old when this movie was filmed.

Awards [edit]

You Can't Take It with You won two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra.[2]

Its nominations included Best Supporting Actress for Spring Byington, Best Writing, Screenplay for Robert Riskin's script, Best Cinematography for Joseph Walker, Best Film Editing for Gene Havlick, and Best Sound, Recording for John P. Livadary.

Adaptations to other media [edit]

You Can't Take it With You was adapted as a radio play on the October 2, 1939 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Edward Arnold, Robert Cummings and Fay Wray.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

Citations
  1. ^ You Can't Take It With You at the Internet Broadway Database
  2. ^ "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
Bibliography
  • Hart, Moss; Kaufman, George S. (1936). You Can't Take It with You (Archival manuscript ed.). New York: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. OCLC 44091928. 

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