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My Man Godfrey, The Three Smart Girls, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Theodora Goes Wild, Over the Hill, The .Miracle Man, Street Scene and Holiday did some profitable spade-work in the no-camera-land of moot and timely issues. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town it was the unemployment problem.
Although well aware that unemployment was calling upon the right hand to see less of the left hand than at any time in history, Capra and Riskin saw no reason to vindicate Deeds' generosity. They lit no torches for indiscriminate giving or loaning. Nor did they try to rationalize it. They merely reported a possible reaction, and the report rang true.
Smug fear of scandal was one of the main pursuits in Theodora Goes Wild. Of course that fear was not imagined as authentically as some would have liked, but the ineffectually of society's pretenses was there for any one who cared to read ; millions of pious frauds had a front seat at the mirror.
That there is no fool like an old fool was the thought the Three Smart Girls tried to impress upon their lovelorn pater. And they managed, finally, to get him back to their mother, but the prodigal father was not convinced that his place was with their mother, nor was the audience.
The father did not contribute enthusiastically to the belief that a husband owes a wife something beyond his duty as father and provider, irrespective of her virtues. That he did not was the thing that gave the picture most of its appeal.
When Godfrey was called up to the judge's stand to qualify as a Forgotten Man he took one telling crack at the idle rich and not until his curtain speech did Godfrey again comment directly or indirectly on society's delinquencies.
His fraternity brother remarked at the city dump that the men living in Shantytown had never known anything better and Godfrey corrected him, briefly, but that was all, and it was enough, as far as the controversial aspects were concerned.
The ^effectuality of parents, was not soft-pedaled in Over the Hill nor was there any leaning away from untoward implications regarding faith-healing in The Miracle Man.
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