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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 ...
- $845,710 or $500,000
- April 12, 1936
- Frank Capra
- Howard Jackson, (musical director)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town: Directed by Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander. A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
- Frank Capra
- 151
- 1 min
Nov 19, 2019. Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), a resident of small-town Vermont, leads a simple life until he inherits a vast fortune from a late uncle. Soon, unscrupulous lawyer John Cedar...
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- Gary Cooper
- Frank Capra
- Comedy
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) was based on a book called Opera Hat, about a simple country boy named Longfellow Deeds who inherits $20 million and an opera house in New York. Deeds goes to the city to pick up his inheritance, only to be badgered by various sharks who all want a piece of the inheritance.
- Frank Capra, C. C. Coleman
- Gary Cooper
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Summaries. A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town and leads a small-town kind of life, including playing the tuba in the town band.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, American romantic comedy film, released in 1936, that became one of director Frank Capra’s most popular movies. It is noted for its populist theme and for the performances of Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Longfellow Deeds (played by Cooper) is a country rube who, after inheriting a fortune from his uncle, moves to New ...
