Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in The American Magazine, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra.

During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds Gary Cooper, the coowner of a tallow works, parttime greeting card poet, and tubaplaying inhabitant of the fictional hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, inheritsmillion dollars from his late uncle, Martin Semple. The scheming attorney of his uncle, John Cedar Douglass Dumbrille, locates Deeds and takes him to New York City. Cedar gives his cynical troubleshooter, exnewspaperman Cornelius Cobb Lionel Stander, the task of keeping reporters away from Deeds. Cobb is outfoxed, however, by star reporter Louise Babe Bennett Jean Arthur, who appeals to Deeds romantic fantasy of rescuing a damsel in distress by masquerading as a poor worker named Mary Dawson. She pretends to faint from exhaustion after walking all day to find a job and worms her way into his confidence. Bennett proceeds to write a series of enormously popular articles mocking Longfellows hick ways and odd behavior, giving him the nickname Cinderella Man.Cedar tries to get Deeds power of attorney in order to keep his own financial misdeeds secret. Deeds, however, proves to be a shrewd judge of character, easily fending off Cedar and other greedy opportunists. He wins Cobbs wholehearted respect and eventually Babes love. However, when Cobb finds out Bennetts true identity and tells Deeds, who had been in love with her, he is left heartbroken and in disgust he decides to return to Mandrake Falls. ........

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