Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Published November 17, 2018 at 702 × 546 in William A. Seiter’s If You Could Only Cook (1935) Jean Arthur plays a renowned reporter who is charged with getting the real scoop on too-good-to-be-true Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936).