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You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You (1938) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), a former businessman who has turned his ...

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn

In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Lawrence opts for leaving his job teaching at Columbia ...

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Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe (1941) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington

The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people, ...

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In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg

In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland play a couple of clerks in a sheet-music ...

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The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird (1940) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins

When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily assembled a lavish Technicolor vehicle for his diminutive star which, he hoped, would match Wizard in popularity and appeal. The result was The Blue Bird, adapted from the allegorical stage play by Maurice Maeterlinck ...

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The Big Wheel

The Big Wheel (1949) more movies like this

directed by Edward Ludwig
featuring Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, Mary Hatcher

In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the way to the top, he steps on friends and foes alike. He even manages to briefly alienate his saintly mother (Spring Byington). The cocky Coy eventually kills another racer when he forgets that gas and alcohol don't mix. It ...

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Spring Byington, Thurston Hall, Elizabeth Risdon, Rosalind Keith

After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora Goes Wild. She plays a prim small-town schoolteacher, raised in an oppressive environment by two maiden aunts. Seeking surreptitious adventure, Dunne writes a steamy romance novel in her spare time--which becomes a ...

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The Werewolf of London

The Werewolf of London (1935) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Walker
featuring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington

Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six years, but failed to whip up audience enthusiasm for the monster popularized by Lon Chaney, Jr. in the studio's later classic. Henry Hull stars as botanist Dr. Glendon, whose foray through Tibet in search of a rare night ...

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Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars (1943) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Marta Eggerth, Richard Carlson, Spring Byington

A Booth Tarkington novel was the source for the so-so Judy Garland musical Presenting Lily Mars. Garland plays the title character, a small-town girl with big-city ambitions. She heads to Broadway hoping for stardom, but after a series of disappointments the best she can manage is an understudy job. That's right, folks: the star walks out on ...

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The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington

The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store that he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store, the better to catch the union ...

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When Ladies Meet

When Ladies Meet (1941) more movies like this

directed by Anita Loos, Robert Z. Leonard, S.K. Lauren
featuring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington

Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same name, which starred Ann Harding, Myrna Loy and Spring Byington; their roles were taken over in the remake by Greer Garson, Joan Crawford and Spring Byington. Both films are based on a Rachel Crothers play about a lady ...

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Living in a Big Way (1947) more movies like this

directed by Gregory La Cava
featuring Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger, Phyllis Thaxter, Spring Byington

Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget Technicolor musicals, maverick director Gregory La Cava showcased Kelly in the modest black and white tunefest Living in a Big Way. Kelly is cast as an ex-GI who discovers that his wealthy war bride (Marie McDonald) is an ...

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Love Me Forever (1935) more movies like this

directed by Victor Schertzinger
featuring Grace Moore, Leo Carrillo, Michael Bartlett, Spring Byington

Grace Moore and Victor Schertzinger, the star-director combination responsible for the marvelous One Night of Love (1934), came up with another tune-filled winner in Love Me Forever. Once again voluntarily shedding her "diva" image, Moore plays Margaret Howard, a once-glamorous socialite who's hit the skids. She is rescued from obscurity by Steve ...

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I'll Be Seeing You (1944) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor, William Dieterle
featuring Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully

Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic drama in which a woman named Mary Marshall, who was convicted of manslaughter (she defended herself when her lecherous boss attempted to rape her and she accidentally killed him), is granted a ten-day furlough for Christmas to visit relatives. Once out, she encounters a shell ...

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Thrill of a Romance (1945) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford, Henry Travers, Spring Byington

This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come for a vacation. There he falls in love with the lovely swimming instructor, who is unfortunately newly married to a rather stodgy businessman. The mayhem begins when her new husband is called to Washington on urgent business. ...

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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Joseph Cotten, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart

Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern town. Here, Hale makes the acquaintance of Elaine Corelli (Alida Valli), who has had a grudge against the world since being crippled in a skiing accident. While endeavoring to help Elaine come out of her shell, Hale falls ...

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