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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Gary Cooper
Longfellow Deeds
Jean Arthur
Babe Bennett
George Bancroft
MacWade
Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb
Douglass Dumbrille
John Cedar
Raymond Walburn
Walter
H.B. Warner
Judge May
Ruth Donnelly
Mabel Dawson
Walter Catlett
Morrow
John Wray
Farmer
Stanley Andrews
James Cedar (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Frank (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Cabby (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Mal (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Party Guest (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Strolling Violinist (uncredited)
George Cooper
Bob (uncredited)
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When a financier dies leaving the enormous sum of $20 millions, the race to find an heir takes us to a tiny hamlet where we meet the pixilated poet “Longfellow Deeds” (Gary Cooper). He’s an honest, slightly flighty, man who hasn’t the foggiest idea what to do with his new fortune except, perhaps, serenade it with his tuba! His rise to fame hasn’t gone unnoticed in the press, and one newspaper decides to send a reporter to ingratiate herself with him, and to write reports ridiculing him and naming him the “Cinderella Man”. She (Jean Arthur) gradually starts to realise that her naive and impressionable mark actually has an heart of gold, but when his grandest scheme of all to spend his money attracts the lawyers who try to certify him, can she do anything to help him fight back? Cooper is great here, and together with Arthur delivers a punchy comedy that shines a light on greed, power and their best counter-measure - decency. There’s a great ensemble cast supporting too, especially his sagely butler (Raymond Walburn) and Walter Catlett’s lively “Morrow”, but it’s really just down to Cooper showing us he has comedy timing, too.
Geronimo196707 Aug, 2025
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