Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release Year: 1938
Country: USA
Runtime: 126
Rating: 5.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Frank Capra
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Youll love them all for giving you the swellest time youve ever had!

The Great Pulitzer Prize Play...Becomes the Years Outstanding Picture!

Writing by: George S. Kaufman - (play) and
Moss Hart - (play)
Robert Riskin - (screenplay)

Produced by: Frank Capra - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Jean Arthur - Alice Sycamore
Lionel Barrymore - Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
James Stewart - Tony Kirby
Edward Arnold - Anthony P. Kirby
Mischa Auer - Boris Kolenkhov
Ann Miller - Essie Carmichael
Spring Byington - Penny Sycamore
Samuel S. Hinds - Paul Sycamore
Donald Meek - Poppins
H.B. Warner - Ramsey
Halliwell Hobbes - DePinna

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin Mischa Bakaleinikoff Ben Oakland
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Plot Outline: A good-natured but decidedly eccentric family meets a new friend.
Plot: The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a twelve block area owned by Alices grandparent Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tone decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled. There is an inevitable clash of classes and lifestyles, the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony, changing the lives of the Kirby family.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The last text of the end credits is :"B kool stay n skool", followed by a quick shot of Ice fixing his hat while on the bike (obviously being pulled on a trailer) before giving the "peace" sign.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the cab driver pulls up to ask Grandpa Vanderhof how is foot is, he goes from having one arm hanging out of the window to both arms between shots.

Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Columbia paid $200,000 for the film rights to the play.
• Frank Capra first became aware of the play when he caught a performance of it when he was in New York in 1937 for the premiere of Lost Horizon (1937). He tried to persuade Columbia boss Harry Cohn to buy the rights but Cohn refused, partly because he baulked at the prospect of shelling out what he considered to be the exorbitant sum of $200,000 for the rights, but mainly because he was still smarting from the lost battles hed had with Capra over the final edit of Lost Horizon (1937). Capra too was out of sorts with Cohn as he objected strongly to the Columbia boss trying to market the Jean Arthur film If You Could Only Cook (1935) in Britain as one of his own. A court case ensued, only being resolved in November 1937, with the proviso that Columbia buy the rights to the play and assign the project to Capra.
• The first James Stewart and Frank Capra collaboration.

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