You Can't Take It With You

Name: You Can't Take It With You
Director: Frank Capra
Released: 1938
Duration: 2 h 6 min
Cast: James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Mary Forbes

by Frank Capra2h061938United States

Recommended byLaurent Cantet

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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.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Production Compagny : Colombia Pictures
- Distributor : Sony Pictures
- Photo Director : Joseph Walker
- Set Decoration : Lionel Banks, Stephen Goosson
- Editing : Gene Havlick
- Director : Frank Capra
- Producer : Frank Capra
- Sound Recorder : Edward Bernds, Garry A. Harris
- Original Music : Dimitri Tiomkin
- Scenario : Robert Riskin
- Costume Design : Bernard Newman, Irene
- Original Work Author : Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1938
- French release date : 3 novembre 1938
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English

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This film is recommended by
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You Can't Take It With You

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