FRANK CAPRA | You Can't Take It With You

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DIRECTOR OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" AND "IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT" and others

PUBLISHER:
Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a "proto-feminist" director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.

This page updated October 26, 2007

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Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur

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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
1938

Based on the play
You Can't Take It with You
by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Opened in New York, Dec 14, 1936

Director: Frank Capra
General Release Date: September 2,9 1938
Premiere in New York on September 1,1938
Production Date: April 25 to June 29, 1938

126 minutes long

11,571 Feet of footage ; 13 Reels of Film

CAST:

Jean Arthur
Lionel Barrymore
James Stewart
Edward Arnold
Mischa Auerv
Ann Miller
Spring Byington
Samuel S. Hinds
Donald Meek
H.B. Warner
Halliwell Hobbes
Dub Taylor
Mary Forbes
Lillian Yarbo
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Alice Sycamore
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Tony Kirby
Anthony P. Kirby
Boris Kolenkhov
Essie Carmichael
Penny Sycamore
Paul Sycamore
Poppins
Ramsey
DePinna
Ed Carmichael
Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Rheba
Donald (as Eddie Anderson)

Notes about the 2003 DVD version of the film:

Available from amazon.com
Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
One Disc package; this film is also part of the Capra "Premier" box set
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: February 18, 2003
Run Time: 126 minutes

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CAPRA FILM PAGES:
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Broadway Bill (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Lady for A Day (1933)
American Madness (1932)
Forbidden (1931)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
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