Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Mr. Deeds Goes To Town , 1936.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Corny Cobb (Lionel Stander), PR man from the law firm of the uncle who left him $20-million, visits the title character (Gary Cooper), alarmed by news of his first night on the town, neither knowing that his new friend Babe (Jean Arthur) is the reporter, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Reporter Babe (Jean Arthur) is introduced as editor MacWade (George Bancroft) berates his staff, while the title character (Gary Cooper), adjusting to his inheritance, frustrates crooked lawyer Cedar (Douglas Dumbrille), who aims to formalize his status, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Storming home to Vermont after finding out his girlfriend was a sneaky reporter, Gary Cooper (title character), with PR man Cobb (Lionel Stander), is confronted by a farmer (John Wray), incensed by stories of his inheritance and lifestyle, a big moment in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Babe (Jean Arthur), with roommate (Ruth Donnelly), takes a call from Gary Cooper (title character) then frets about not telling him she’s the reporter writing the stories about him, then a famous bit with his valet (Raymond Walburn) et al, in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Planning his first unsupervised evening in New York, newly super-rich Vermonter Gary Cooper ducks his minders (Charles Wilson, Harry Holden) then falls completely for the act staged by reporter Babe (Jean Arthur), their first meeting, in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Lawyers Cedar and Anderson (Douglas Dumbrille, Harry C. Bradley) and PR man Cobb (Lionel Stander) find Gary Cooper (title character, ) at his Vermont home, informing him of his giant inheritance, Frank Capra directing from Robert Riskin’s screenplay, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

When small-town poet Gary Cooper inherits a fortune, he has to deal with the corruption of city life in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).