Jean Arthur
Acting • Born 1900-10-17 – Died 1991-06-19
Biography
Jean Arthur 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.
Filmography
104 credits
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Clarissa Saunders
Shane
Movie • 1953
Marian Starrett
The Talk of the Town
Movie • 1942
Nora Shelley
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
History Is Made at Night
Movie • 1937
Irene Vail
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie • 1936
Babe Bennett
Public Hero Number 1
Movie • 1935
Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Alice Sycamore
Arizona
Movie • 1940
Phoebe Titus
The Devil and Miss Jones
Movie • 1941
Mary Jones
Only Angels Have Wings
Movie • 1939
Bonnie Lee
The Plainsman
Movie • 1936
Calamity Jane
A Foreign Affair
Movie • 1948
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Yesterday and Today
Movie • 1953
(archive footage)
A Lady Takes a Chance
Movie • 1943
Molly J. Truesdale
Easy Living
Movie • 1937
Mary Smith
The Whole Town's Talking
Movie • 1935
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
The Canary Murder Case
Movie • 1929
Alice LaFosse
The More the Merrier
Movie • 1943
Constance Milligan
The Iron Horse
Movie • 1925
Reporter (uncredited)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Movie • 1936
Paula Bradford
The Greene Murder Case
Movie • 1929
Ada Greene
Adventure in Manhattan
Movie • 1936
Claire Peyton
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
Vicky Lowndes
Most Precious Thing in Life
Movie • 1934
Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
If You Could Only Cook
Movie • 1935
Joan Hawthorne
Party Wire
Movie • 1935
Marge Oliver
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Movie • 1929
Lia Eltham
The Silver Horde
Movie • 1930
Mildred Wayland
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Movie • 1938
Jean Arthur
The Saturday Night Kid
Movie • 1929
Janie Barry
The Impatient Years
Movie • 1944
Janie Anderson
Danger Lights
Movie • 1931
Mary Ryan
Street of Chance
Movie • 1930
Judith Marsden
The Public Menace
Movie • 1935
Cassie Nicholls
Wine of Youth
Movie • 1924
Flapper
More Than a Secretary
Movie • 1936
Carol Baldwin
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Movie • 1930
Lia Eltham
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
The Lawyer's Secret
Movie • 1931
Beatrice Stevens
The Block Signal
Movie • 1926
Grace Ryan
Whirlpool
Movie • 1934
Sandy
The Defense Rests
Movie • 1934
Joan Hayes
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Flying Luck
Movie • 1927
The Girl
Cameo Kirby
Movie • 1923
Ann Playdell
Diamond Jim
Movie • 1935
Jane Matthews / Emma
Seven Chances
Movie • 1925
Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
Ex-Bad Boy
Movie • 1931
Ethel Simmons
Young Eagles
Movie • 1930
Mary Gordon
Brotherly Love
Movie • 1928
Mary
The Poor Nut
Movie • 1927
Margie Blake
Half Way to Heaven
Movie • 1929
Greta Nelson
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Winners Of The Wilderness
Movie • 1927
Bit Role (uncredited)
Paramount on Parade
Movie • 1930
Dream Girl
Warming Up
Movie • 1928
Mary Post
The Past of Mary Holmes
Movie • 1933
Joan Hoyt
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
The Drug Store Cowboy
Movie • 1925
Jean
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Movie • 1936
Self
The Gang Buster
Movie • 1931
Sylvia Martine
Horse Shoes
Movie • 1927
Miss Baker
The Cowboy Cop
Movie • 1926
Virginia Selby
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Movie • 1939
Self
Somebody Lied
Movie • 1923
Biff Bang Buddy
Movie • 1924
Bonnie Norton
Fast and Fearless
Movie • 1924
Mary Brown
The Powerful Eye
Movie • 1924
Dud's Sweetheart
Case Dismissed
Movie • 1924
Jean
Bringin' Home the Bacon
Movie • 1924
Nancy Norton
Spring Fever
Movie • 1923
The College Boob
Movie • 1926
Angela Boothby
Stairs of Sand
Movie • 1929
Ruth Hutt
Bigger and Better Blondes
Movie • 1927
Ramona
Born to Battle
Movie • 1926
Eunice Morgan
Tearin' Loose
Movie • 1925
Sally Harris
Hello Lafayette
Movie • 1927
The Fighting Smile
Movie • 1925
Rose Craddock
Lightning Bill
Movie • 1926
Marie Denton
The Hurricane Horseman
Movie • 1925
June Mathews
The Broken Gate
Movie • 1927
Ruth Hale
The Mad Racer
Movie • 1926
Ridin' Rivals
Movie • 1926
Ruth Burroghs
Wallflowers
Movie • 1928
Sandra
Thundering Romance
Movie • 1924
Mary Watkins
The Fighting Cheat
Movie • 1926
Ruth Wells
Thundering Through
Movie • 1925
Ruth Burroughs
The Roaring Rider
Movie • 1926
Mary Watkins
Twisted Triggers
Movie • 1926
Ruth Regan
Eight-Cylinder Bull
Movie • 1926
Travelin' Fast
Movie • 1924
Betty Conway
Under Fire
Movie • 1926
Margaret Cranston
Husband Hunters
Movie • 1927
Lettie Crane
Double Daring
Movie • 1926
Marie Wells
A Man of Nerve
Movie • 1925
Loria Gatlin
The Masked Menace
Movie • 1927
Faith Newton
Sins of the Fathers
Movie • 1928
Mary Spengler
Virtuous Husband
Movie • 1931
Barbara Olwell
Get That Venus
Movie • 1933
Margaret Rendleby
Monks a la mode
Movie • 1923
Madame Maxine
Becoming Cary Grant
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Julie Blane
The Jean Arthur Show
TV • 1966