The film helped make co-star Jean Arthur a prominent leading lady for the rest of the decade and into the 40s - it was the first of her three films for Capra.Plot SynopsisThe credits play over a starry night sky (heaven), after which a Bible-fearing farm woman named Rachel (Lillian Gish), dressed in a plain dress with shoulder shawl, magically materializes over the star-filled night background.I wrote forty operas alone." And then, Salieri played the first few bars ofEine Kleine Nachtmusik- one of the most immediately recognizable tunes that Mozart ever wrote.Murtaugh admitted he had illegally taken in an entire Chinese family led by English-speaking father Hong (Eddy Ko) - rescued from the lifeboat.