Directed by:
Frank CapraScreenplay:
Robert RiskinCinematography:
Joseph WalkerComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington, H.B. Warner, Halliwell Hobbes, Dub Taylor, Mary Forbes (more)Plots(1)
The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a twelve block area owned by Alice's grandparent Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tone decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled. There is an inevitable clash of classes and lifestyles, the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony, changing the lives of the Kirby family. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ky Robinson
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
![Harry Semels](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/093/160093444_4272a2.jpg)
Harry Semels
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunrise (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
S.S. Simon
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Greed (1924)
Bert Starkey
UK
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Jane Talent
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
![Charles Lane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/208/160208646_292f65.gif)
Charles Lane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Edward Keane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Jack Gardner
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
![Edward Hearn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/254/160254725_f78671.jpg)
Edward Hearn
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The General (1926)
Love Crazy (1941)
![John Hamilton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/443/161443421_1a4fb5.jpg)
John Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
![Edward Peil Sr.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/589/160589573_1bd565.gif)
Edward Peil Sr.
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Storm Warning (1951)
![Walter Walker](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/545/160545360_aea7d6.jpg)
Walter Walker
USA
Best movies:
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
![Edgar Dearing](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/802/160802929_87d04b.jpg)
Edgar Dearing
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Scarlet Street (1945)
![Edwin Maxwell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/995/160995623_fe923a.jpg)
Edwin Maxwell
Ireland
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
![Gladys Blake](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/996/160996746_296f2e.jpg)
Gladys Blake
USA
Best movies:
To Each His Own (1946)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
![Margaret Mann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/998/160998250_f92ef7.jpg)
Margaret Mann
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
![Lee Phelps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/045/161045073_80d9c2.jpg)
Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
![Anne Cornwall](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/065/161065014_51ee88.jpg)
Anne Cornwall
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Christian Rub
German Empire
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
![Wallis Clark](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/167/161167747_1e4c4d.jpg)
Wallis Clark
UK
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
It Happened One Night (1934)