Jean Arthur
Acting
🎂 1900-10-16
Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." Arthur has been called "the quintessential comedic leading lady." Arthur is best known for her feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the everyday heroine. Her last performance was the memorable—and distinctly non–comedic—role as the rancher's wife in George Stevens' Shane (1953). Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Arthur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(105)
Julie Blane
1955
1966
Marian Starrett
1953
Mildred Wayland
1930
Mary Jones
1941
Clarissa Saunders
1939
Alice LaFosse
1929
Irene Vail
1937
Alice Sycamore
1938
Babe Bennett
1936
Constance Milligan
1943
Nora Shelley
1942
Bonnie Lee
1939
Reporter (uncredited)
1925
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
1948
Phoebe Titus
1940
Mary Smith
1937
Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
1925
Lia Eltham
1929
Joan Hayes
1934
Jane Matthews / Emma
1935
Mary Ryan
1931
Jean Arthur
1938
Calamity Jane
1936
Self (archive footage)
1988
Molly J. Truesdale
1943
Self (archive footage)
1998
Ada Greene
1929
Marie Denton
1926
Joan Hawthorne
1935
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
1935
Judith Marsden
1930
Janie Anderson
1944
(archive footage)
1984
Lettie Crane
1927
Claire Peyton
1936
Self
1936
Vicky Lowndes
1940
Ann Playdell
1923
Virginia Selby
1926
Dream Girl
1930
Paula Bradford
1936
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Nancy Norton
1924
The Girl
1927
Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
1934
Marge Oliver
1935
Mary
1928
Flapper
1924
Bit Role (uncredited)
1927
Self (archive footage)
1985
Beatrice Stevens
1931
Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
1935
Ethel Simmons
1931
Sandra
1928
Joan Hoyt
1933
Greta Nelson
1929
Angela Boothby
1926
Dud's Sweetheart
1924
Sandra Rankin Morrison
1934
Grace Ryan
1926
Mary Gordon
1930
Mary Brown
1924
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1999
Cassie Nicholls
1935
Ruth Hale
1927
Mary Watkins
1924
1926
Eunice Morgan
1926
Janie Barry
1929
Miss Baker
1927
Mary Post
1928
Loria Gatlin
1925
Ramona
1927
June Mathews
1925
Mary Watkins
1926
Madame Maxine
1923
Sylvia Martine
1931
Ruth Wells
1926
Self
1939
Ruth Regan
1926
(archive footage)
1953
Margaret Cranston
1926
Bonnie Norton
1924
Barbara Olwell
1931
Marie Wells
1926
Lia Eltham
1930
Ruth Hutt
1929
1923
Mary Spengler
1928
Jean
1925
Margie Blake
1927
Ruth Burroughs
1925
Sally Harris
1925
1927
Ruth Burroghs
1926
Self (archive footage)
2008
Carol Baldwin
1936
Betty Conway
1924
1923
Margaret Rendleby
1933
Rose Craddock
1925
Faith Newton
1927
Jean
1924
1926