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Stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a 12-block area owned by Alices grandfather, Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes to Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tony decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled get-together. There is an inevitable clash of classes and lifestyles: the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony, changing the lives of the Kirby family.
Tony Kirby Jr., vice president of Kirby and Company, and his stenographer Alice Sycamore are in love with each other and want to get married. They both realize that a major problem in doing so is the incompatibility of their respective families. Tonys father, the companys owner and president Anthony P. Kirby, is a cutthroat businessman who doesnt care who he steps on to earn the almighty dollar, the amount of which being how he measures his worth and the worth of others. Tonys mother is a pretentious snob. Both his parents openly but quietly disapprove of the union. Alices extended family, on the other hand, are an eccentric lot. They all have a "do whatever you want to do because you like doing it" mentality, which was initially fostered by the family patriarch, Alices maternal grandfather, Martin Vanderhof, in whose house they all live. With the exception of Alice, they are somewhat blissfully unaware that their lives are unconventional. However, their attitude of openness and inclusion has reaped them the rewards of a multitude of unconditional friends, some who live with them solely because they came one day, liked what they saw, were welcomed with open arms, and have never left. Tony and Alice want to deal with the incompatibility issue head-on, although they both take differing paths in how to deal with it. Another problem is that A.P. Kirby is working on the biggest deal of his career - cornering the munitions market, especially lucrative in the lead up to probable war--that requires a massive land acquisition, which includes Grandpa Vanderhofs house, but he refuses to sell. Grandpa is unaware of who wants to buy his house, while A.P. is unaware that Grandpa is the one hold-out who could ruin his entire plan.
Jean Arthur
Alice Sycamore
James Stewart
Tony Kirby
Lionel Barrymore
Martin Vanderhof
Edward Arnold
Anthony P. Kirby
Mischa Auer
Kolenkhov
Ann Miller
Essie Carmichael
Spring Byington
Penny Sycamore
Samuel S. Hinds
Paul Sycamore
Donald Meek
Poppins
H.B. Warner
Ramsey
Halliwell Hobbes
DePinna
Dub Taylor
Ed Carmichael
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Anthony Kirby
Lillian Yarbo
Rheba
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Clarence Wilson
John Blakely
Josef Swickard
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