Mr. Deeds Goes to Town behind the scenes gags
2022-04-30 06:01
Carole Lombard was the candidate to play the heroine of the film, but she switched to the crew of "My Godfrey" three days before the filming started, so the heroine was vacant when the film started.
This film made the words "pixilated" (crazy) and "doodling" (graffiti) appear for the first time.
Jean Arthur had never watched the film until he attended the film festival with director Capra in 1972.
Initially, Columbia company boss Harry Cohn opposed Jean Arthur's role as the heroine of the film, but he changed his original intention under the persuasion of director Capra.
Columbia and Capra had planned to make a sequel to this film, named "Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington" (Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington), starring Jaley Cooper and Gene Arthur, according to Lewis Fo Adapted from the novel "The Gentleman from Wyoming" by Lewis R. Foster. Later, Capra made the novel into "Mr. Smith to Washington" in 1939.
Screenwriter Robert Riskin thinks this film is one of his favorites
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Extended Reading
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town quotes
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Longfellow Deeds:
I guess I found out that all famous people aren't big people.
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Morrow:
Oh, what a magnificent deflation of smug-glers. Pal, you've added ten years to me life. A poet with a straight left and a right hook. Delicious. Delicious! You're my guest from now on - forever and a day - even unto eternity!
