You Can’t Take It With You: 1938 Best Picture

At the 11th Academy Awards Columbia’s “You Can’t Take It With You” got 7 nominations but only took home 2 Oscars: Best Picture and Best Director (Frank Capra).

“The Adventures of Robin Hood” starring Errol Flynn won 3 of its 4 nominations: Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score. “Boys Town” and “Jezebel” each had 5 nominations. Their only Oscars went to Best Actor (Spencer Tracy) and Best Actress (Bette Davis), respectively.

We found one Jeopardy! clue on “You Can’t Take It With You” and it was a Triple Stumper:

WHAT ARE “YOU” DOING? $800: This 1938 James Stewart film won Best Picture & earned an Oscar for its director, Frank Capra

Here are 4 clues on female lead, Jean Arthur, but none of them have to do this this film.
CAPRA CLASSICS $1200: Seen here in “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town”, she was Capra’s favorite actress
NEVERMORE $400: Jean Arthur’s last feature film was this 1953 Alan Ladd classic; she never made a “Come Back”
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Frank Capra’s favorite actress; she appeared in his “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” & “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
WOMEN IN WESTERNS $400: She played the mother of the little kid who yelled, “Come back! Shane!”

7 clues were devoted to Boys Town:
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a gym in Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) I’m at the spot where in a 1938 movie this actor, as Whitey Marsh, is elected mayor of Boys Town
CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938: Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama
FILMS OF THE ’30s $200: He played a priest in “San Francisco” in 1936 & again in 1938 for “Boys Town”
AN ACTOR’S LIFE FOR ME $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Girls and Boys Town.) He sent his “Boys Town” Oscar to Father Flanagan, saying his “great human qualities were strong enough to shine through my humble efforts”
OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Edward Joseph Flanagan
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938: Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama
“BOY” MOVIES $400: 1938: Spencer Tracy

More 1938 film clues
IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN “THREE”S $200: In 1938 this trio soitenly made the short film “Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb”
BIOPICS $400: In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East
HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $1600: In 1938 Hedy made her American film debut with Charles Boyer in this film bearing the name of an African capital
THE ORIENT EXPRESS $1600: (Jimmy walks down a hallway before disappearing into thin air.) You wouldn’t think someone could disappear on a train, but it happens in this 1938 film set aboard the Orient Express
UP ON THE “BIG” SCREEN $800: In this “of 1938” Bob Hope introduced “Thanks For The Memory”
RONALD REAGAN WAS AN ACTOR $800: In 1938’s “Brother Rat”, Reagan acted with this woman who would become his first wife
THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: June Lockhart debuted as a Cratchit child in this 1938 film, with her real parents playing Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cratchit
ACTOR-RIFIC $100: 1938’s “Under Western Stars” helped launched the career of this big-screen singing sensation:
FILM ROLES IN COMMON $400: Wendy Hiller played her in 1938’s “Pygmalion”; Audrey Hepburn had the role in “My Fair Lady”
DISNEYANA $200: This terrible trio hit the big screen for the first time in 1938
BOBs & JEFFs $200: He sang “Thanks for the Memory” in his first feature film, “The Big Broadcast of 1938”
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed “Algiers” in 1938
“HEART”Y PHRASES $400: In the 1938 movie musical “Listen, Darling”, Judy Garland sang, “Zing! Went” these
THE OSCARS $100: Edgar Bergen received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for creating this dummy
“DR.” MOVIES $600: For 9 years L. Barrymore starred as the gruff Dr. Gillespie, starting with this film in 1938