---
title: 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Frank Capra'
released: '1936-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 115
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027996/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

1936 · 115 min · Comedy, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and 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 Capra.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra)
- **Producer:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Riskin](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riskin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-jackson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-walker)
- **Editor:** [Gene Havlick](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-havlick)

## Cast

- [Margaret McWade](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-mcwade)
- [Stanley Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-andrews)
- [Joe Bordeaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-bordeaux)
- [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller)
- [George "Gabby" Hayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-gabby-hayes)
- [Jack Mower](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mower)
- [Edmund Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-mortimer)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)
- [Lionel Stander](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-stander)
- [Dennis O'Keefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-o-keefe)
- [Edward LeSaint](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-lesaint)
- [H. B. Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-b-warner)
- [Bud Osborne](https://cinepixo.com/people/bud-osborne)
- [William Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-irving)
- [Irving Bacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-bacon)

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