You can well imagine Anthony P. Kirby’s chagrin.
In the 1938 screwball comedy, You Can’t Take It With You, Kirby (Edward Arnold) is a wealthy Wall Street tycoon, the type who buys federal regulators as easily as buying real estate. His latest deal involves munitions.
Kirby is a man who has no time or inclination for underlings. And everyone is an underling, except for Tony (James Stewart) his newly-minted Vice President and son.
Life for our tycoon is nothing but money and sunny skies. There is one dark cloud on the horizon, however: his son’s relationship with his working-class secretary, Alice (Jean Arthur). Kirby Sr. accepts this sort of thing in principle, provided it’s on a short-term basis and doesn’t result in marriage.
However, Tony and Alice suddenly become engaged, heralding the start of a fresh nightmare. Next comes the obligatory meeting with That Other Family, which Kirby Sr. calls the “slumming tour”.
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