The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 240 1930s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
467 audience votes
Key crew
- Frank CapraDirector
- Robert RiskinScreenplay
- Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jean ArthurAlice Sycamore
- Lionel BarrymoreMartin Vanderhof
- James StewartTony Kirby
- Edward ArnoldAnthony P. Kirby
- Mischa AuerKolenkhov
- Ann MillerEssie Carmichael
- Spring ByingtonPenny Sycamore
- Samuel S. HindsPaul Sycamore
- Donald MeekPoppins
- H.B. WarnerRamsey
- Halliwell HobbesDePinna
- Dub TaylorEd Carmichael
Stills
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Themes
harmonicamonopolyhousetycoonbased on play or musicallovefriendseccentricsecretaryfree spiritblack and whiterich snob