---
title: 'You Can''t Take It With You (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Frank Capra'
released: '1938-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 126
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/you-cant-take-it-with-you-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030993/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

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

1938 · 126 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American screwball romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

## 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:** [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-walker)
- **Editor:** [Gene Havlick](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-havlick)

## Cast

- [Charles Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lane)
- [Ann Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-miller)
- [Mary Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-forbes)
- [Russell Hicks](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-hicks)
- [Anne Cornwall](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-cornwall)
- [Byron Foulger](https://cinepixo.com/people/byron-foulger)
- [Mischa Auer](https://cinepixo.com/people/mischa-auer)
- [Christian Rub](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-rub)
- [James Burke](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-burke)
- [Jean Arthur](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-arthur)
- [Edward Earle](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-earle)
- [Ann Doran](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-doran)
- [Donald Meek](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-meek)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)
- [Lillian Yarbo](https://cinepixo.com/people/lillian-yarbo)

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