Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur talking about Solar Power

[AnnaCecilleMoorman]

100th like! Woohoo! I love this movie!

[wiscgaloot]

That's God's Jean Arthur! What a scene, what amazing actors they both were.

[Littlewing4201]

This has got to be one of my All time favorite movies ever! thank you so much For posting this, I remember this scene so well & thinking to myself how far reaching this consciousness is.& PS .I get such a kick out of the Animals Like the Raven & Kitten in the scenes with all the great aliveness swirling around..

[sclogse1]

When you get a large screen tv, or start using a front projector, and see these folks really big...well, Jean Arthur starts to knock you out. Watch her close-ups in Easy Living. You're helpless.

[snowcat622]

Jimmy Stewart - sigh... I am so in love with you!

[kmvermeille]

@snowcat622 Yes, me too. He's just so adorable! Truly one of a kind!

[ukluv]

I love Jimmy Stewart. They don't make men like him anymore.

[ProNorden]

@ukluv .... How would you describe Stewart's sort?

Both he an director Frank Capra were fairly strong Republicans, and Stewart attended Princeton, like his character Elwood P. Dowd in 'Harvey' Stewart was great in that great comedy as Dowd, and in Capra's 'It's A Wonderful Life' as George Bailey.

He was also great as Charles Lindbergh in a movie that wasn't particularly, 'The Spirit of St. Louis', but it's still worth seeing. And Lindbergh deserves a better biographical movie.

[JuanMacready]

Stewart was FAR too old to play Lindbergh, who was a NAZI.

[sclogse1]

@JuanMacready

Hard to find a young nazi back then, I suppose.

[tcrownprince]

This is Awesome i think the part where he launches the rock into the old ghosty house "Lassu the moon!! " is Totally Awesome!!!! =)!!

[ashleyg325]

PeterFirthFan is an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about, I advise everyone to ignore his comments.

[apban]

this scene just goes to show that it's all just a little bit of history repeating

[gennieann9]

Can´t think of anything more magical and beautiful than this scene, Has me almost in tears out of shere happiness

at the subttety of Stewart´s and Arthur´s acting. Unsurpassed.

[nexttimewelove51]

Jean Arthur was Jimmy Stewart's favorite leading lady to work with. Jimmy and Jean are my favorites ever.

[PeterFirthFan]

He might have liked her but she hated him.

[Draw4You]

This scene is so wonderful and rare... It meanders slowly, like real life, which was quite rare even in '38, let alone now. It feels so natural to see young Jimmy Stewart, himself barely 5 years out of Princeton at that point, just talking so earnestly about something so important in such an unassumingly believable way. That was JS's real gift, his ability to make written dialogue seem so true, and improvised. And that we're seeing it now is a real tribute to Capra for capturing it for us.

[WintersWar]

I'd add edward arnold...but that's just me.

[FergusonFan]

The first time I saw this I was like: "Whaaat?!?! that guy is talking about SOLARPANNELS!!! .... in 1938!!!" lol

Love that movie, love Capra, love Stewart, love Jean Arthur, Love Lionel Barrymore :D I guess I dont need to add any thing else

[chloeefitz]

what?

[ardenspanzers]

You sure do not know either US history or our political history either. You are a a liar a racist a homophobe and an anti-semit, as you support liberal jew hates like sean penn and spike lee. From all the postings you do under all your troll names 4 I believe show signs of being bi-polor. So you may be showing early signs of mental illness. Grow up little man with the little closed mind!

[ardenspanzers]

So you were personal friends of Jean Arthur? Think not my bi-polar brit child!

[PeterFirthFan]

Actually Stewart was a racist.

[landosalemchainsaw]

prove it

[landosalemchainsaw]

ive read several including Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend by Michael Munn that dismiss these accusations. For instance it says and I quote

[landosalemchainsaw]

during the filming of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)" where a support actor referred to Woody Strode as "a nigger". Lee Marvin told to the author "

[PeterFirthFan]

That is the same book where Munn quotes Strode as saying that Stewart was a racist.

[medlin1412]

Liar.

[PeterFirthFan]

Stewart was a racist CUNT.

[morganod]

This is one of my favorite movies, could you post the part where they are eating dinner with his family and the cops come and take them to jail and they are in their cells? If not thats ok, I'm glad parts of the movie are on here, I doubt alot of people have even seen this movie.

[smileygal607]

awesome movie! my 8th grade class did the play and i was alice. :)

[nautilu]

Really? I was in the play in 8th grade, too, and I was Rheba the housemaid. Would you happen to have gone to Sellers M. S. in Texas?

[nexttimewelove51]

Jimmy Stewart was a very smart man. Jean Arthur was such a sweetheart. These two were wonderful together.

[tefisher1984]

Happy 108th birthday Jean Arthur!

[jcanivan]

Looks like Jimmy Stewart was a head of his time. Hope we can catch up to his grand vision before it's too late.

John Canivan

[rkg77]

I'm glad someone else noticed this. Isn't it amazing? He really was onto something, tuned into the future, even though she and his dad laugh at him about it. Also, the great observation about fear and how it controls people, how it's used to sell you stuff.

[justmejules711]

most people not all people are afraid to live their lives..and I for one believe the day will come when this nation will be united and stand strong and courageous once again...

I stand behind my president and I stand up for these UNITED STATES of America!!

this was a great film one of my favorite called..You Can't Take it With You!!

so much wisdom is great classic films such as these!!

United we stand!

[timequaketoday]

does anybody know where this scene was filmed?

[IkeaScrabble]

at about :47, they talk about how advertising works "They scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need"

SEVENTY YEARS LATER AND IT'S STILL TRUE!

[lilevo84]

like a republican president lol

[pildskadden]

Oh, this is so poetic and beautiful. Used to watch this scene over and over when I had it on beta. It's almost like an Astaire/Rogers dance, only they're talking instead of dancing. Jean Arthur's voice is simply one of the prettiest in the history of movies!

[majik2hanz]

Very apt observation great dialogue smooth as silk and real. Jean Arthur's voice is definitely different only sound alike I can think of is Joan Hackett sounded a bit like her and a little bit like Gracie Allen. Personally I don't care for it but from cinematic perspective it adds a great 'signature' in the character's she played which worked perfect for screwball comedies and heartfelt girl next door / working girl types of the era.

[dithompson99]

The movie is You Can't Take it With You; I ordered it last month through TCM online. I'm buying up all of Jimmy's movies. Bluecollarteen, you have great taste! You love how Jean Arthur looks and I love Jimmy. People are still having converstations like the one in this scene...it's really wonderful I think.

[segundasusu93]

what is this from?

[bluecollarteen]

Jimmy Stewart is my favorite actor, and I'm 17 :D Man, Jean Arthur was absolutely beautiful, I love how she looked in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

[Peach103]

I agree. Would you like to be friends?

[nixthetiger]

My mom used to tell this story about her dad being James Stewart's driver when Stewart was a colonel in the Air Force. Grandpa, a non-military GVT. employee, didn't realize who "Colonel Stewart" was until he invited him home for dinner, without telling Grandma first. She nearly fainted when her husband stepped into her kitchen with a movie star!

[kerusso89]

that's awesome! really!

[starshooter1093]

that's so cool!!!!

[wwood14]

could someone post the movie Shenandoah??

[jmrleroy]

She had the most beautiful voice. Such a thoughtful script.

[RubyTuesday717]

Today would be Jean Arthur's 107th birthday. We love you and we miss you, you talented woman!!

[graywolf2112]

yeah right and one day we'll have magical flying machines and man will walk on the moon and cars will travel faster than 35 mph... HA HA keep dreaming. Jean Arthur is a freaking hottie though.

[coltrain210]

Anyone have any recommendations for other films similar in theme. Freespirit type, but not 60's.

[pildskadden]

Holiday by George Cukor,with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn?

[SamKrux2]

Jimmy and Jean are fab together

[rebelgrrrlx]

oh how i love jimmy stewart.

[playjurist]

Fascinating. Intersection of themes: fear and solar power. We have some sources of fear in our energy supply: global warming, reliance on despots for supply. And it is fear of change that prevents us from the carbon economy to other energy sources.

[othelo45]

Acting 101.

[kardrak]

Inspiring scene! Solar Power is our destiny...

[bosox5757]

jimmy was my favorate actor and love his westerns

[RubyTuesday717]

This is one of the most poignant scenes in the history of film. I can't believe they were talking about Solar Power in 1938!! This is the first Stewart/Capra collaboration and their most underrated. Jean Arthur and Jimmy Stewart are amazing here, their chemistry so natural.

[finalgirltheory]

this has always been my favorite scene in the film. THANK YOU for posting it!

[floydian18]

wow now that is acting!

[hpalethorpe]

amazing acting. I haven't seen the film, but i was being drawn into it just from looking at that scene

[hankmt]

Yep, all in one shot. The scene is actually a couple minuts longer than this, with some on the beginning and some on the end without any cuts. Really amazing, you just don't see stuff like this in movies anymore.

[collmari]

That was so great...and it looks as though it was all in one shot...Arthur and Stewart are just so natural in their acting styles, I love it.