Greatest Best Picture of All Time: Old Hollywood, Round 3
After a short foray into the 21st century, I'm bouncing back to the "Old Hollywood" section of my bracket. For round 3, we had to pit You Can't Take It with You (1938) vs. Casablanca (1942.) First Contestant: You Can't Take It With You Nowadays, if you mention the name Frank Capra, you mostly get blank stares. He is remembered, when he's remembered at all, for It's a Wonderful Life , the 1946 anti-materialist movie that starred Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, and Jimmy the Raven . It's a Wonderful Life won no awards, flopped at the box office, lapsed into public domain, and became a Christmas classic because stingy networks would slap it on the schedule every December. Eight years before directing that masterpiece, however, Capra directed a different movie with anti-materialist themes, also starring Stewart, Barrymore, and Raven. That was You Can't Take It With You, which won Best Picture of 1938, and has since been almost complete