Film

Eccentrics butt heads with stuffed shirts in Capra's second Best Picture Oscar winner, an adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning play. As the only normal member of a zany, artistically inclined household, stenographer Alice (Arthur) meets with the disapproval of her fiancé's (Stewart) wealthy, stuck-up parents. Starring Barrymore as an aging patriarch who freed himself long ago from the capitalist rat race, this warmhearted celebration of love and family was embraced by Depression-era audiences in 1938, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year.