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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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16 April 1936 (USA) moreTagline:
Rocking America with laughter!Plot:
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
For Independence Day, Ten Movies That Scream America (From Huffington Post. 1 July 2009, 8:16 AM, PDT)
Character Actor Charles Lane Dies at 102
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 July 2007)
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67 years on and the film is still pertinent..... moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Gary Cooper | ... | Longfellow Deeds | |
| Jean Arthur | ... | Babe Bennett | |
| George Bancroft | ... | MacWade | |
| Lionel Stander | ... | Cornelius Cobb | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | John Cedar | |
| Raymond Walburn | ... | Walter | |
| H.B. Warner | ... | Judge May | |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Mabel Dawson | |
| Walter Catlett | ... | Morrow | |
| John Wray | ... | Farmer |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Fun Stuff
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Carole Lombard was originally down to play the female lead but she backed out three days before production began to go work on My Man Godfrey (1936). Shooting had to begin without a female lead in place. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When the attorney is trying to get Deeds to sign the power of attorney, while Deeds is being fitted for a new suit, a vest disappears and reappears. moreQuotes:
[to Walter, as he interrupts Mr. Deeds' tuba playing]Longfellow Deeds: The evil finger's on you!
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Referenced in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life': A Personal Remembrance (1991) (V) moreFAQ
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Of all Capra's films this is the one I like the best, partly, I think, because there has never been anybody in the history of cinema to match Gary Cooper at putting on the boyish charm. As Longfellow Deeds, a man who inherits a lot of money he does not need and therefore does not want, Cooper is just right, a hick, but not a fool, a gentle man but not one who will let the wool be pulled over his eyes. The films' pertinence arises from its' depiction of a rich man prepared to give his wealth away to benefit his fellow man. It was a fantasy then, and is as much a fantasy now, because we do not learn, least of all from pictures even as good as this one.