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.
Gary Cooper
as Longfellow Deeds
Jean Arthur
as Babe Bennett
George Bancroft
as MacWade
Lionel Stander
as Cornelius Cobb
Douglass Dumbrille
as John Cedar
Raymond Walburn
as Walter
H.B. Warner
as Judge May
Ruth Donnelly
as Mabel Dawson
Walter Catlett
as Morrow
John Wray
as Farmer
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An unassuming poet from a small town called Mandrake Falls who suddenly inherits twenty million dollars is certainly fair game for every swindler, crooked businessman, and reporter in New York. Especially one very clever and witty newswoman named Babe Bennett, played by the great Jean Arthur. I mu...