In letters to her Spanish raised daughter, Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending that she's a high-society matron. When the now grown up daughter and her aristocratic fiancée plan to visit, Annie panics and turns to her best customer, Dave the Dude, a racketeering gangster who sets about transforming her into the grandest of dames. Based on ‘Guys and Dolls' this 1930s fairytale was Capra's first major success, a charming comedy drama with a razor sharp script that received four Oscar nominations.