‘You Can’t Take it with you’ the second Oscar-winning comedy after ‘It Happened One Night’ was also directed by Frank Capra. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 became engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
The movie stars Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold. The film received two Academy Awards from seven nominations, Best Picture and Best Director, for Frank Capra. This was Capra’s third Oscar for Best Director in just five years, following ‘It Happened One Night’ (1934) and ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ (1936). It was also the highest-grossing picture of the year.
The 11th Academy Awards were held on 23rd February 1939. It was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film, Jean Renoir’s ‘Grand Illusion’ was nominated for Best Picture.
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