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  • You Can't Take It with You (1938)
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    126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed
126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
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Director
Writers
Robert Riskin (screen play) | George S. Kaufman (based upon the play by) | Moss Hart (based upon the play by)
Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin (musical score)
Cinematographer
Joseph Walker (photography)
Editor
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Release date
Sep 29, 1938 (United States)

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Jean Arthur
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Lionel Barrymore
Martin Vanderhof Martin Vanderhof   See fewer
James Stewart
Tony Kirby Tony Kirby   See fewer
Edward Arnold
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Mischa Auer
Kolenkhov Kolenkhov   See fewer
Ann Miller
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Spring Byington
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Samuel S. Hinds
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Donald Meek
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H.B. Warner
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Halliwell Hobbes
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Dub Taylor
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Mary Forbes
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Clarence Wilson
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Ann Doran
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Christian Rub
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