![]() Now, the Kirby companies merge, creating a huge fluctuation in the stock market. With Alice gone, Grandpa decides to sell the house, thus meaning the whole section of the town must vacate in preparation for building a new factory. This causes a sensation in the papers, and Alice flees the city. When Grandpa, attempting to help Kirby, says it was to talk over selling the house, Alice has an outburst and says it was because she was engaged to Tony, but is spurning him because of how poorly she has been treated by his family. He repeatedly asks why the Kirbys were at the Vanderhof house. ![]() ![]() At the court hearing, the judge ( Harry Davenport) allows for Grandpa and his family to settle the charges for disturbing the peace and making illegal fireworks by assessing a fine, for which Grandpa's neighborhood friends pitch in to pay. Kirby repeatedly insults Alice and makes her feel unworthy of her son, while Grandpa explains to Kirby the importance of having friends, and that despite all the wealth and success in business, "you can't take it with you". Held up in the drunk tank preparing to see the night-court judge, Mrs. When the fireworks in the basement go off, they arrest everyone in the house. As the Kirbys are preparing to leave after a rather disastrous meeting, the police arrive in response to what they perceive as printed threats on flyers by Grandpa's son-in-law, Ed Carmichael. Before she accepts, Alice forces Tony to bring his family to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, but when Tony purposely brings his family on the wrong day (reasoning that he would rather the two families meet as they are, not in a formal 'stuffed-shirt' setting), the Sycamore family is caught off-guard, and the house is in disarray. Kirby and his wife ( Mary Forbes) strongly disapprove of Tony's choice for marriage. Unbeknownst to the players, Alice's family lives in the house that will not sell out. In fact, Alice is the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, led by Vanderhof. When Tony proposes marriage, Alice is worried that her family would be looked upon poorly by Tony's rich and famous family. Kirby's son, Tony ( James Stewart), a vice president in the family company, has fallen in love with a company stenographer, Alice Sycamore ( Jean Arthur). ![]() Meanwhile, Grandpa Vanderhof ( Lionel Barrymore) convinces a banker named Poppins to pursue his dream of making animated toys. Kirby instructs his real-estate broker, John Blakely ( Clarence Wilson), to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but one house is a holdout to selling. Kirby ( Edward Arnold), has just returned from Washington, DC, where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. Deeds Goes to Town (1936).Ī successful banker, Anthony P. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years, following It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Kaufman and Moss Hart, 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.Ī critical and commercial success, the film received two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George S. 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.
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