You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller
Director: Frank Capra
Lost Horizon (1937)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La – but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?
Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, Thomas Mitchell, Ronald Colman, John Howard
Director: Frank Capra
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn
Director: Frank Capra
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Drama
An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption.
Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee
Director: Frank Capra
It Happened One Night / Night Bus (1934)
Comedy | Romance
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants…. a really juicy newspaper story.
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt
Director: Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi
Director: Frank Capra
