Grandpa doesn't believe in income tax because he doesn't know what he's going to get for his money. They have a bone to pick with Grandpa because he's never filed an income tax return. They are waiting for Tony to come over, but it's the IRS instead. He tells them not to worry, because he owns his own house and he won't sell, so no-one will have to go anywhere. Alice, is afraid that the whole thing will never work out because she'll never be accepted by his family, but Tony insists that he always gets what he wants and he'll be able to talk them round.īack in the neighbourhood, all of the neighbours come running up to Grandpa and tell him that they all have to move, that someone is buying all of their houses from their landlords, but they don't want to move. the rich uptight family, as a secretary for the son, Tony (James Stewart), who is very sweet and good and unlike the rest of his family, who are starting to notice that he's very interested in his secretary, and they had better do something about it before he decides to marry her! Too late, however, much too late. Poppins is home.Īlice (Jean Arthur), one of the granddaughters of the house, it turns out works for the Kirbys, i.e. Hinds) is making firecrackers, Ed (Dub Taylor) is playing the xylophone-basically, everyone is doing exactly what they want, exactly what makes them happy. Poppins shouldn't take any Kool-Aid from Grandpa anytime soon.īack at the house, Essie (Ann Miller) is dancing around, Penny (Spring Byington) is writing a play, Paul (Samuel S. Poppins, shows him a mechanical bunny he made, then ends up following Grandpa to live in his house and become a lily of the field. In fact, he is such a iconoclast that, when called into the real estate office to be offered about five times what his house is worth, he instead sees an accountant adding up numbers, asks him what he really wants to do, the accountant, Mr. If you ain't having fun, you are wasting your life. ![]() ![]() Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) is the head of the family with the revolutionary idea that people should do what they love to do, that joy and friendship and fun are reasons to live, not money. ![]() I don't know if also one of the Trump offspring wanted to marry the farmer's daughter, but the rest was this plot to a tee. Life has changed so little in the past seventy years that this exact scenario just happened, with the farmer in Scotland refusing to sell his land to Donald Trump for a golf course even though all of the other land around sold up. You Can't Take it With You, still a staple of community theatre all across this great land of ours, the story of a boy from a rich, uptight family of business leaders and war profiteers wanting to marry a girl from the craziest family around, one who actually doesn't think money is anything like as important as fun! Not to mention the fact that the war profiteer father needs to buy one more house in a twelve-block radius in order to monopolize the entire munitions business, and that house is owned by the head of the crazy family who just won't sell!
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