Top billed cast

1. 

   Gary Cooper

   Longfellow Deeds

2. 

   Jean Arthur

   Babe Bennett

3. 

   George Bancroft

   MacWade

4. 

   Lionel Stander

   Cornelius Cobb

5. 

   Douglass Dumbrille

   John Cedar

6. 

   Raymond Walburn

   Walter

7. 

   H.B. Warner

   Judge May

8. 

   Ruth Donnelly

   Mabel Dawson

9. 

   Walter Catlett

   Morrow

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-08-07

When a financier dies leaving the enormous sum of $20 millions, the race to find an heir takes us to a tiny hamlet where we meet the pixilated poet “Longfellow Deeds” (Gary Cooper). He’s an honest, slightly flighty, man who hasn’t the foggiest idea what to do with his new fortune except, perhaps, serenade it with his tuba! His rise to fame hasn’t gone unnoticed in the press, and one newspaper decides to send a reporter to ingratiate herself with him, and to write reports ridiculing him and naming him the “Cinderella Man”. She (Jean Arthur) gradually starts to realise that her nai...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• new york city
• newspaper
• small town
• postcard
• money
• lawyer
• reporter
• black and white
• vermont
• heir
• tuba
• tuba player
• damsel in distress