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A comedy drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper as a simple-minded poet who inherits a fortune and moves to New York. He meets a reporter who pretends to be a damsel in distress and falls in love with him, but faces many challenges and enemies in the big city.
- Frank Capra
- 151
- 1 min
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American comedy-drama romance film 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 Frank Capra.
- $845,710 or $500,000
- April 12, 1936
- Frank Capra
- Howard Jackson, (musical director)
A classic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Longfellow Deeds, a simple Vermont farmer, inherits a fortune and faces the challenges of New York City and a scheming reporter.
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- Gary Cooper
- Frank Capra
- Comedy
Longfellow Deeds lives a simple, quiet life in the small town of Mandrake Falls. He has never traveled, and he makes a living writing little ditties for greeting cards and the like. When his rich uncle dies, he learns that he has inherited $20 million. He moves to New York where everybody tries get something from him.
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Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Cinderella Man Corny Cobb (Lionel Stander), PR man from the law firm of the uncle who left him $20-million, visits the title character (Gary Cooper), alarmed by news of his first night on the town, neither knowing that his new friend Babe (Jean Arthur) is the reporter, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.
