In my opnion, Mr. Deeds (2002) stole a bit from this movie

In terms of the situation where the female newspaper reporter gets close to the man she thinks is an imbecile only to eventually discover he is not the moron he's depicted to be in the papers. And like in HP, the female reporter in Mr. Deeds claims to be from a small town like him. Amy Archer in HP pretends to be from the same town as Norville. Winona Rider's character pretends to be from a different small town similar to Longfellow Deeds. Like in HP, Mr. Deeds falls in love the female reporter, despite the fact that she lied to him about her identity and did him wrong. The difference era wise was that HP was set in the 50's whereas Mr. Deeds (2002) was set in present day.