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  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  • Not Rated
    115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
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Director
Writers
Robert Riskin (screen play) | Clarence Budington Kelland (story)
Cinematographer
Joseph Walker (photography)
Editor
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Release date
Apr 12, 1936 (United States)

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Gary Cooper
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Jean Arthur
Louise 'Babe' Bennett, a) Mary Dawson Louise 'Babe' Bennett, a) Mary Dawson   See fewer
George Bancroft
MacWade MacWade   See fewer
Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb 'Corny' Cornelius Cobb 'Corny'   See fewer
Douglass Dumbrille
John Cedar John Cedar   See fewer
H.B. Warner
Judge May Judge May   See fewer
Ruth Donnelly
Mabel Dawson Mabel Dawson   See fewer
John Wray
Farmer Farmer   See fewer
Stanley Andrews
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Frank Austin
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John W. Austin
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Irving Bacon
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Louise Bates
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Bobbie Beal
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Hank Bell
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Billy Bevan
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Georgie Billings
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Edgar Bingham
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John Binns
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Wyrley Birch
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Beatrice Blinn
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Katherine Block
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Sammy Blum
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William A. Boardway
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Joe Bordeaux
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Barbara Boudwin
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Harry C. Bradley
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Charles Brinley
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Hal Budlong
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James Burke
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Vera Burnett
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Fred Cady
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Mary Jane Carey
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James Carlisle
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Spencer Charters
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Jack Cheatham
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Steve Clark
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Dora Clement
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Jack Rube Clifford
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James Conaty
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Kathryn Connolly
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Charles Conrad
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George Cooper
Bob (uncredited) Bob (uncredited)   See fewer
Georgie Cooper
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Cecil Cunningham
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Thomas A. Curran
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Beatrice Curtis
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Boyd Davis
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Helen Dickson
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Mary Lou Dix
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Rita Donlin
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Ann Doran
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Walter Downing
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Tex Driscoll
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Adabelle Driver
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Florence Dudley
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Bobby Dunn
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Emma Dunn
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Georgia Dunn
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Peter Duray
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Janet Eastman
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Jay Eaton
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Oliver Eckhardt
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Robert Ellsworth
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Muriel Evans
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Paul Everton
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Adolph Faylauer
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Juanita Fletcher
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Bess Flowers
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Charles K. French
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Edward Gargan
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Otto Gervice
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Carlton Griffin
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Sherry Hall
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Chuck Hamilton
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Frank Hammond
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Sam Harris
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Beth Hartman
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Jack Hatfield
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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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Althea Henley
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Al Herman
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Charles Herzinger
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Lew Hicks
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Russell Hicks
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Harry Holden
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Fay Holderness
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Frank Holliday
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Arthur Hoyt
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Arthur Stuart Hull
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Paul Hurst
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Warren Hymer
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William Irving
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Gladden James
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Eddie Kane
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Edward Keane
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Barbara Knox
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Anne Kunde
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Mike Lally
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Charles Lane
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Lillian Lawrence
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Frederick Lee
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Edward LeSaint
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Stella LeSaint
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Vera Lewis
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Alphonse Martell
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Edwin Maxwell
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Lafe McKee
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Frank McLure
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Margaret McWade
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George Meeker
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James Mendelson
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Mayo Methot
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Robert Milasch
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Harold Miller
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James Millican
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Jack Minton
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Patricia Monroe
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Jack Montgomery
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Bert Moorhouse
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Edwin Mordant
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Gene Morgan
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Ed Mortimer
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Edmund Mortimer
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Jack Mower
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John T. Murray
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Louis Natheaux
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Field Norton
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Frank O'Connor
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Vessey O'Davoren
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Dennis O'Keefe
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Bud Osborne
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Peggy Page
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Ethel Palmer
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William 'Bill' Phillips
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John Picorri
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Paul Porcasi
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Richard Powell
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Ky Robinson
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John Roy
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Christian Rub
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Anne Schaefer
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Margaret Seddon
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Harvey Shepherd
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Antrim Short
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Lee Shumway
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S.S. Simon
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Kay Smith
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Pat Somerset
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Harry Stafford
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Mary Starling
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Larry Steers
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Bert Stevens
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Henry Stockbridge
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Charles Sullivan
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Ced Talbot
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