
Feature film — 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Columbia Pictures
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Director: Frank Capra
On screen
Cast & crew

Gary Cooper
Longfellow Deeds

Jean Arthur
Babe Bennett

George Bancroft
MacWade

Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb

Douglass Dumbrille
John Cedar

Raymond Walburn
Walter

H.B. Warner
Judge May

Ruth Donnelly
Mabel Dawson

Walter Catlett
Morrow

John Wray
Farmer

Stanley Andrews
James Cedar (uncredited)

Irving Bacon
Frank (uncredited)
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