It's a Wonderful World (1939 film)

It's a Wonderful World
1939 original movie poster
Directed by	W. S. Van Dyke
Screenplay by	Ben Hecht
Story by	Ben Hecht Herman J. Mankiewicz
Produced by	Frank Davis
Starring	Claudette Colbert James Stewart
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	Harold F. Kress
Music by	Edward Ward
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 19, 1939 (1939-05-19)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

It's a Wonderful World is a 1939 American romantic screwball comedy-mystery film, starring Claudette Colbert and James Stewart and directed by W. S. Van Dyke.

Cast

Claudette Colbert as Edwina Corday
James Stewart as Guy Johnson
Guy Kibbee as Fred 'Cap' Streeter
Nat Pendleton as Sergeant Fred Koretz
Frances Drake as Vivian Tarbel
Edgar Kennedy as Lieutenant Miller
Ernest Truex as Willie Heyward
Richard Carle as Major I. E. Willoughby, the head of Guy's detective agency
Cecilia Callejo as Dolores Gonzales
Sidney Blackmer as Al Mallon
Andy Clyde as 'Gimpy' Wilson
Cliff Clark as Captain Haggerty, the frustrated boss of bumblers Koretz and Miller
Cecil Cunningham as Madame J. L. Chambers
Leonard Kibrick as Herman Plotka
Hans Conried as Mr. Delmonico, Stage Manager
Conrad Veidt as George Richard
Brandon Hurst as Paul Henry
Grady Sutton as Lupton Peabody
George Chandler as Photographer (uncredited)
Lester Dorr as Photographer (uncredited)
George Meeker as Ned Brown (uncredited)

Filming locations

San Diego, California

References

External links

It's a Wonderful World at IMDb
It's a Wonderful World at AllMovie
It's a Wonderful World at the TCM Movie Database
It's a Wonderful World at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by W. S. Van Dyke

The Land of Long Shadows (1917)
The Range Boss (1917)
Open Places (1917)
Men of the Desert (1917)
Gift O' Gab (1917)
Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917)
The Lady of the Dugout (1918)
The Hawk's Trail (1919)
Daredevil Jack (1920)
Double Adventure (1921)
The Avenging Arrow (1921)
The Boss of Camp 4 (1922)
Forget Me Not (1922)
White Eagle (1922)
According to Hoyle (1922)
The Destroying Angel (1923)
The Little Girl Next Door (1923)
The Miracle Makers (1923)
Half-A-Dollar-Bill (1924)
The Beautiful Sinner (1924)
Loving Lies (1924)
Winner Take All (1924)
Gold Heels (1924)
The Timber Wolf (1925)
The Trail Rider (1925)
Ranger of the Big Pines (1925)
Barriers Burned Away (1925)
Hearts and Spurs (1925)
The Desert's Price (1925)
The Gentle Cyclone (1926)
War Paint (1926)
Winners of the Wilderness (1927)
California (1927)
Eyes of the Totem (1927)
The Heart of the Yukon (1927)
Foreign Devils (1927)
Spoilers of the West (1927)
The Adventurer (1928)
Under the Black Eagle (1928)
Wyoming (1928)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
The Pagan (1929)
Guilty Hands (1931)
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
Trader Horn (1931)
The Cuban Love Song (1931)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Night Court (1932)
Penthouse (1933)
Eskimo (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Laughing Boy (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Hide-Out (1934)
Forsaking All Others (1934)
I Live My Life (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Rose Marie (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
His Brother's Wife (1936)
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Love on the Run (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Personal Property (1937)
Rosalie (1937)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Sweethearts (1938)
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Another Thin Man (1939)
I Take This Woman (1940)
New Moon (1940)
I Love You Again (1940)
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Rage in Heaven (1941)
The Feminine Touch (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
I Married an Angel (1942)
Cairo (1942)
Journey for Margaret (1942)

v t e Ben Hecht
Films directed	Crime Without Passion (1934) Once in a Blue Moon (1935) The Scoundrel (1935) Soak the Rich (1936) Angels Over Broadway (1940) Specter of the Rose (1946) Actor's and Sin (1952)
Films written	Underworld (1927) The Great Gabbo (1929) The Unholy Night (1929) Roadhouse Nights (1930) The Unholy Garden (1931) Scarface (1932) Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) Topaze (1933) Turn Back the Clock (1933) Design for Living (1933) Viva Villa! (1934) Shoot the Works (1934) Twentieth Century (1934) Crime Without Passion (1934) The Scoundrel (1935) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Barbary Coast (1935) Nothing Sacred (1937) The Goldwyn Follies (1938) Gunga Din (1939) Wuthering Heights (1939) Let Freedom Ring (1939) It's a Wonderful World (1939) Lady of the Tropics (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) Angels Over Broadway (1940) Comrade X (1940) Lydia (1941) China Girl (1942) Roxie Hart (1942) Spellbound (1945) The Black Swan (1945) Specter of the Rose (1946) Notorious (1946) Her Husband's Affairs (1947) Kiss of Death (1947) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) The Miracle of the Bells (1948) Whirlpool (1949) Perfect Strangers (1950) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) Actor's and Sin (1952) Monkey Business (1952) Living It Up (1954) Ulysses (1954) The Indian Fighter (1955) Miracle in the Rain (1956) The Iron Petticoat (1956) A Farewell to Arms (1957) Legend of the Lost (1957) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) The Sun Also Rises (1957) Queen of Outer Space (1958) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) Circus World (1964) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Plays written	The Front Page (1928) Twentieth Century (1932) Ladies and Gentlemen (1939) A Flag is Born (1946)
Related	Rose Caylor (wife) Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City Gaily, Gaily (1969 film)

This page was last edited on 23 August 2022, at 07:53

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

Cast

Filming locations

References

External links