You Can’t Take It With You and the 11th Academy Awards

The Best Picture breakdown by Worthy hosts, Ben Smith and Jon Roberts, dive into Frank Capra’s 2nd Best Picture winner and 3rd Best Director led film “You Can’t Take It With You”. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, starred icons like James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold. In this episode, Ben and Jon discuss the importance of Capra to the cinematic landscape and how his themes idealize the American Dream.

The discussion on “You Can’t Take It With You” reveals the importance of screwball comedies, the budding career of James Stewart as well as tackling the idea of adaptation and originality in filmmaking. Ben and Jon look back on 11th Academy Awards and how the field of Oscar contenders continued to grow in 1938.

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