Best Picture adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an eccentric family of carefree misfits, whose only seemingly normal member, a young lady, falls for her employer's son, the gentlemanly product of stuffy, snobby parents. And when the member (more…)Best Picture adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an eccentric family of carefree misfits, whose only seemingly normal member, a young lady, falls for her employer's son, the gentlemanly product of stuffy, snobby parents. And when the members of the two disparate clans meet, there are fireworks. Frank Capra won his third Best Director Oscar.

A struggling actress impresses a fading alcoholic movie star who gives her the big break she's always wanted and marries her. However, the marriage becomes troubled when she becomes a bigger star than her husband.