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You Can't Take it With You was an important example of the category of end-of-depression heart warming movies made by Frank Capra in the 1930s. It is a 1938 romance about two families from the opposite side of just about everything, whose lives are disrupted by Cupid.The movie is based on a popular play by George S. Kaufman, and the cast included Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Edward Arnold , Spring Byington , Charles Lane, and Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. Among the many uncredited bit players we find the celebrated dance instructor Arthur Murray.
The movie earned Capra the Best Picture Oscar as producer, and the Best Director Oscar.
Although it won no other Oscars it received five nominations.
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Spring Byington
- Best Cinematography - Joseph WalkerJoseph Walker can refer to more than one person of note, including: Joseph A. military aviator Joseph Marshall Walker governor of Louisiana in the 1850s Joseph Walker (explorer).
- Best Film EditingThe Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. 1930s 1934 Eskimo Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra Anne Bauchens One Night of Love Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream Ralph Dawson David Copperfield Robert J. Kern The Informe - Gene Havlick
- Best Sound, RecordingThis is a list of films that have received an Oscar for best sound. 1930s 1930 The Big House Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio 1931 Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department 1932 Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department 1933 A Farewell to Arms Fr - John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
- Best Writing, ScreenplayThe Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play). See also the A - Robert Riskin
You Can't Take It With You is a Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States. The prize was-winning play by George S. Kaufman about a house full of dreamers, anarchists, and other lovable losers presided over by their indulgent and loving grandfather. Also a notable filmFor other uses see film (disambiguation Film — also called movies the cinema the silver screen moving pictures motion pictures photoplays picture shows and flicks — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment of 1938 with Lionel Barrymore as the patriarch. It ends with a grand, accidental fireworks explosion.
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