You Can't Take It with You (film)

You Can't Take It with You
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrank Capra
Screenplay byRobert Riskin
Based onYou Can't Take It with You
1936 play
by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
Produced byFrank Capra
Starring
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Edited byGene Havlick
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • August 23, 1938 (1938-08-23) (int'l press preview)[1]
  • September 1, 1938 (1938-09-01) (New York City)[2]
  • September 29, 1938 (1938-09-29) (U.S.)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$1,644,736 (est.)[3]
Box office
  • US$2,137,575 (U.S. rentals)[4]
  • US$5,295,526 (int'l rentals)

You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart,[5] the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

A critical and commercial success, the film received two Academy Awards, one for Best Picture and another for Best Director for Frank Capra. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years, following It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936).

  1. ^ "Notes". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  2. ^ "A World Premiere of World Importance! (Advertisement)". Film Daily: 8–9. August 25, 1938.
  3. ^ "Top Films and Stars". Variety. January 4, 1939. p. 10. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  4. ^ McBride, Joseph (June 2, 2011). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. University Press of Mississippi. p. 381. ISBN 978-1-6047-3839-1.
  5. ^ ​You Can't Take It With You​ at the Internet Broadway Database