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The 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 twelve block area owned by Alice's grandparent 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 Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tone decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled. 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. Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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You'll love them all for giving you the swellest time you've ever had!
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Release Date:
29 September 1938 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Vive como quieras
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Box Office
Budget:
$1,644,736
(estimated)
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Sound Mix:
Mono
(RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Goofs
Harmonica disappears and reappears on conference table.
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Quotes
Tony Kirby:
I can feel a scream coming on right now... it's up here, in my throat! It's fighting to get out!
Alice Sycamore:
No, please, don't scream!
[
she screams]
Henry - the Head Waiter:
[
comes over]
What happened?
Tony Kirby:
What happened? Well, there was a mouse!
Henry - the Head Waiter:
A mouse in this place?
Tony Kirby:
What do you mean, 'mouse'? It was a rat, *this* long, and it had hair on it! And there were six or seven of them!
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Connections
Referenced in
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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Soundtracks
Loch Lomand
(uncredited)
Traditional Scottish folk song
Played on harmonica by
Lionel Barrymore See more »