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1936
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.
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People from rural areas of America represent a social group that is nowadays treated with almost genocidal disdain by Hollywood. Many decades ago, this was not the case, and Hollywood actually catered to that group by making films in which "yokels" were protagonists, representing everything that is good, noble, and pure. One of the most famous examples is *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*, a 1936 comedy directed by Frank Cap…More
