You Can't Take It With You (1938) (Sub)

Academy Award winner James Stewart (1940, Best Actor, "The Philadelphia Story;" 1985 Honorary Oscar) stars as the stable, down to earth son of a very snooty and wealthy family. When Jean Arthur who plays the daughter of an offbeat family falls for him, the collision course of cultures is set. The results are classic Capra. The hero, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, (Lionel Barrymore, 1931 Best Actor, "A Free Soul") reigns over a delightful madhouse full of his wife, children and grandchildren and their spouses, and folks who came for a visit and never left. All are artists, writers, and inventors, and none of them have let a lack of talent interfere with having a good time. That's fine with Grandpa; he opted out of the rat race years ago because it was no fun. Today, he "doesn't believe in income tax" and allows fireworks experiments to go on in the basement. His refusal to sell his home to grasping business magnates prevents the eviction of neighboring tenants and Vanderhof's many dependents

Into the circus atmosphere of the Vanderhof household comes Tony Kirby (James Stewart), wooing Grandpa's granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur). Tony is a bit dismayed by this family of bohemians in which "everybody does just as he pleases," though he later realizes that he gave up his dream when he was pressured into joining the family banking business by his stuffed-shirt father (Edward Arnold) and snobby mother (Mary Forbes). When the off-beat Vanderhof clan meets Tony's parents, Tony comes to realize that most people are "afraid to live" their dreams. The result is an inevitable dressing down of the Forbes that's as humorous as it is well deserved, as only a master like Frank Capra can capture .