Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Plot
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
About Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in The American Magazine, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Capra.
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Cast
Gary CooperLongfellow Deeds
Jean ArthurBabe Bennett
George BancroftMacWade
Lionel StanderCornelius Cobb
Douglass DumbrilleJohn Cedar
Raymond WalburnWalter
H.B. WarnerJudge May
Ruth DonnellyMabel Dawson
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