She Couldn't Take It
6.2
“"Listen sweetheart - you're going to get a lesson in love!"”
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Cast
103 people
George Raft
Joe "Spot" Ricardi
Known for
Some Like It Hot
They Drive by Night
Joan Bennett
Carol Van Dyke
Known for
Scarlet Street
The Woman in the Window
Tay Garnett
B.P. Schulberg
Leon Shamroy
Oliver H.P. Garrett
Walter Connolly
Daniel Van Dyke
Known for
It Happened One Night
Twentieth Century
Gene Towne
Stephen Goosson
Billie Burke
Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke
Known for
The Wizard of Oz
Father of the Bride
C. Graham Baker
Gene Havlick
Tay Garnett Director · Oliver H.P. Garrett Screenplay C. Graham Baker Story
United States release October 8, 1935 · Produced in United States
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 8, 1935
Theatrical
Belgium
June 19, 1936 · Brussels
Denmark
February 10, 1936
France
March 25, 1936
Portugal
June 17, 1937
Sweden
January 31, 1936
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