You Can't Take It with You is a 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, later adapted into a 1938 Academy-Award winning film starring Lionel Barrymore and Jimmy Stewart, and a forgotten 1987 syndicated television series. The movie suffers from Adaptation Expansion The play had only 19 characters, there are 153 parts in the Jimmy Stewart film.