L'eterna illusione

Titolo originale:
Regia: Frank Capra |
Anno: 1938
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Romance
Tag:
Cast: Jean Arthur | James Stewart | Lionel Barrymore | Edward Arnold | Mischa Auer | Ann Miller | Spring Byington | Samuel S. Hinds | Donald Meek | H.B. Warner | Halliwell Hobbes | Dub Taylor | Mary Forbes | Lillian Yarbo | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | Clarence Wilson | Josef Swickard | Ann Doran | Christian Rub | Bodil Rosing | Charles Lane | Harry Davenport | Irving Bacon | Ward Bond | James Burke | Eddy Chandler | Anne Cornwall | Nell Craig | Edgar Dearing | Pat Flaherty | Robert Greig | Kit Guard | John Hamilton | Edward Hearn | Russell Hicks | Edward Keane | Pert Kelton | Edwin Maxwell | Frank McLure | Charles McMurphy | James Millican | Edward Peil Sr. | Ian Wolfe | Eugene Anderson Jr | Stanley Andrews | William Arnold | Johnny Arthur | Frank Austin | Harry A. Bailey | Joseph E. Bernard | Beatrice Blinn | Charles Brinley | Beatrice Curtis | Betty Farrington | John Ince | Stella LeSaint | Margaret Mann | Tina Marshall | Eva McKenzie | Fred Parker | George C. Pearce | Ed Randolph | Frances Raymond | Bert Starkey | Dorothy Vernon | Bess Wade | Gladys Blake | Joe Bordeaux | Ralph Brooks | Stanley Brown | Gloria Browne | Wallis Clark | Chester Clute | Nick Copeland | Dick Curtis | Sidney D'Albrook | Lew Davis | Lester Dorr | Jack Gardner | William Lally | Gene Morgan | Vernon Dent | Kay Deslys | Florence Dudley | Almeda Fowler | Alice Keating | Georgia O'Dell | Dagmar Oakland | Rosemary Theby | Homer Dickenson | Oliver Eckhardt | Sterrett Ford | Jesse Graves | Louis King | Bob Kortman | Ralph McCullough | Clive Morgan | Cy Schindell | Harry Semels | Ernest Shields | S.S. Simon | Victor Travis | Roland Dupree | Edward Earle | Jim Farley | Eddie Fetherston | James Flavin | Byron Foulger | Dick French | Carlton Griffin | Dick Rush | Bruce Sidney | Harry Stafford | Carlie Taylor | Joe Geil | Billy Wolfstone | Chuck Hamilton | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Harry Hollingsworth | Paul Irving | Boyd Irwin | Eddie Kane | Frank Mills | Bruce Mitchell | Wedgwood Nowell | Blanche Payson | Lee Phelps | Hilda Plowright | Doris Rankin | Ky Robinson | Frank Shannon | C.L. Sherwood | Edwin Stanley | Bert Stevens | Laura Treadwell | John Tyrrell | Walter Walker | Pierre Watkin | Pat West | Larry Wheat | Alex Woloshin | Bess Flowers | Jimmy Anderson | Dorothy Babb | William A. Boardway | Howard Davies | Bill Dill | Melvin J. Gibby | Joseph Glick | Jack Grant | Beatrice Hagen | Sam Harris | Dick Johnstone | Hilda Rhodes | Ruth Robinson | Gale Ronn | Nell Roy | Bee Stephens | Belle Stoddard | Jane Talent | Patty Thomas | Pearl Varvalle | Gertrude Weber | Bud Wiser |

Alice, l'unico membro relativamente normale della eccentrica famiglia Sycamore, si innamora di Tony Kirby. Il suo ricco padre, un banchiere, e la madre snob disapprovano l'unione. Quando i Kirby sono invitati a cena per conoscere i futuri suoceri, le cose non vanno come Alice avrebbe sperato...