Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)




Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town




Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds, a tuba-playing country boy who suddenly inherits a million dollars and then gives it all away when he discovers that his so-called big city associates are crooks and swindlers.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , April 1936
Photoplay , April 1936
Photoplay , April 1936

Photoplay , June 1936
Photoplay , June 1936
Photoplay , June 1936


Books with substantial mentioning of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Homer Dickens
The Films of Gary Cooper
Secaucus, NJ, 1970

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970