Mr. Deeds Goes To Town - February 11, 1940 - 00:58:45 - 26.8 MB On February 11, 1940, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre On The Air presents Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. Based on the 1935 short story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland, motion picture screenplay by Robert Riskin. Radio play by Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz. Cast: Orson Welles (Longfellow Deeds), Gertrude Lawrence (Brenda Bennett), Everett Sloane (John Cedar), Paul Stewart (Cornelius Cobb), Frank Readick (the Judge), Edgar Barrier (Mr. Buddington), Agnes Moorehead (a Pixilated Lady), Jane Hauston (a Pixilated Lady), Ernest Chappell (Bailiff), Edwin C. Hill, Richard Wilson, Howard Teichmann and Joseph Cotten in other multiple roles. Music by Bernard Herrmann. Listen/Download Absolutely Free ~ http://wWw.OrsOnRaDio.com An earlier radio adaptation of the film was broadcast on February 1, 1937 on Lux Radio Theater. In that broadcast, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Lionel Stander reprised their roles from the 1936 film. Frank Capra won his second Academy Award in 1936 for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Gary Cooper received the first of his five nominations for Best Actor. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Sound Recording. At the boxoffice, it was Capra's "biggest hit, easily surpassing It Happened One Night." (wiki) Other remakes of Mr. Deeds Goes To Town include the Adam Sandler film Mr. Deeds (2002) and a Japanese manga adaption by Ogata Hiromi in 2010. The lyrics to the 1977 Rush song "Cinderella Man" on the A Farewell to Kings album are based on the story of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.