list of 400 employees who will strike. The manager tricks the group into giving him the list. When they realize the manager's deceit, John and Mary take back the list and destroy it by eating it, after which Mary uses the intercom system to successfully encourage the entire store to strike. In the following days, all of the employees picket Merrick's home. John decides to finally reveal his identity and has Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe meet him and his staff to discuss terms. They are initially unaware of his identity, but upon discovery, Joe faints, Mary screams, and Elizabeth stares up at John in disbelief as John asks her if she would be willing to go back on a statement she made about not wanting to marry a rich man. The film then cuts to a wedding party on a cruise liner, showing that there has been a joint wedding: John has married Elizabeth and Mary has married Joe. The party is made up of all of the store employees and it is shown that John has paid for all of them to take a Hawaiian vacation. Cast Jean Arthur as Mary Jones, store clerk Charles Coburn as John P. Merrick, richest man in the world aka Thomas Higgins Robert Cummings as Joe O'Brien Edmund Gwenn as Hooper, section manager Spring Byington as Elizabeth Ellis, clerk S. Z. Sakall as George (Merrick's butler) William Demarest as First detective Walter Kingsford as Mr. Allison, store manager Montagu Love as Harrison Richard Carle as Oliver Charles Waldron as Needles Edwin Maxwell as Withers Edward McNamara as Police desk sergeant Robert Emmett Keane as Tom Higgins Florence Bates as store shopper Pat Flaherty as Mark - Policeman with pickpocket Irving Cummings Minta Durfee as Customer (uncredited) William Elmer as Attendant at Jim's bath house Frank Mills as Attendant at third bath house Victor Potel as Attendant at first bath house Walter Tetley as Stock boy Production Frank Ross and Norman Krasna decided to produce a movie together starring Jean Arthur (Ross' wife) based on a story by Krasna. The three formed a partnership and borrowed $600,000 from a bank to finance the film. The script was written in ten weeks and then Sam Wood came on board as director. Krasna described the experience of making the film as one of the best in his career. RKO agreed to distribute the film. It was