You Can't Take It With You

Introduction and comments following You Can't Take It With You, 1938, from TCM's Dave Karger and special guest Laurence Carter Long.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces You Can’t Take It With You, 1938.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces You Can’t Take It With You, 1938.

This ensemble scene featuring Donald Meek, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Miller, Dub Taylor, Spring Byington and others illuminates the Sycamore household in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, 1938.

Taxman Henderson (Charles Lane) and Grandpa Sycamore (Lionel Barrymore) lead off this mayhem as Tony (James Stewart) collects Alice (Jean Arthur) for a date. with Ann Miller, Spring Byington, Dub Taylor, and Mischa Auer, in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You, 1938.

Bank stenographer Alice (Jean Arthur) is about to loser her job for playing around with her boss, Tony (James Stewart), the son of the owner, who insists they proceed with their plans in You Can't Take It With You, 1938, Frank Capra's production of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play.

After a tense encounter with his disapproving family at a fancy restaurant, Tony (James Stewart) teases his stenographer and fianceè Alice (Jean Arthur, still sporting a sign from an earlier mishap), setting off a new crisis, in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, 1938.

Philosophical Grandpa Vanderhoff (Lionel Barrymore) persuades lowly clerk Poppins (Donald Meek) to show his latest invention before real estate man Blakely (Clarence Wilson), representing the evil bank, closes in with an offer in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it With You, 1938.

No edits in this piece from the original Kaufman & Hart play, with Alice (Jean Arthur) and Tony (James Stewart), her fiancè and former boss, conversing on a park bench, in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it With You, 1938.

Opening credits and Kirby (Edward Arnold) hustling into the bank where he reports on plans to corner the munitions market, James Stewart his pliant son, in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it With You, 1938, from the Kaufman and Hart play.