You Can't Take It With You Cast
Meet the Cast
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore)
Penniless and Care FreeGrandpa Martin Vanderhof. The guy who puts the, "You can't take it with you" in You Can't Take It With You. No really—he's the guy that actually says that line to Mr. Kirby...
Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold)
Stereotypical Boring BankerWhen you think "wealthy banker" you probably tend to think, "boring busy middle-aged dude." And Kirby is pretty much that boring busy middle-aged dude. He's basically the...
Tony Kirby (James Stewart)
Tony the Left-Handed"I'm a left-handed guy," Tony tells Alice. He doesn't mean he's literally left-handed; what he means is that he's a bit of an odd duck.Of course, Alice's family is filled with o...
Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur)
Alice Sycamore or Alice Kirby?Alice is a central character in You Can't Take It With You… and yet, she doesn't exactly make sense.Look at her from one angle, and Alice seems a free-spirited, high...
Minor Characters
There are a lot of characters in You Can't Take It With You; the screenplay calls for more than a hundred and fifty parts. Many of these are just faces in a crowd, or folks passing through. With so...