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(103)
Julie Blane
1955
Marian Starrett
1953
Clarissa Saunders
1939
Babe Bennett
1936
Alice Sycamore
1938
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
1948
Nora Shelley
1942
Phoebe Titus
1940
Jean
1925
Molly J. Truesdale
1943
Bonnie Lee
1939
Self (archive footage)
1988
Lia Eltham
1929
Lia Eltham
1930
Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
1934
Calamity Jane
1936
Sandy
1934
Joan Hayes
1934
Self (archive footage)
1998
Self
1939
Dream Girl
1930
Marge Oliver
1935
Self
1936
Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
1935
Virginia Selby
1926
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1999
Bit Role (uncredited)
1927
Alice LaFosse
1929
Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
1925
Reporter (uncredited)
1925
Joan Hawthorne
1935
Cassie Nicholls
1935
Mary Ryan
1931
Lettie Crane
1927
Mary Smith
1937
Beatrice Stevens
1931
(archive footage)
1984
Greta Nelson
1929
Ethel Simmons
1931
Ruth Regan
1926
Mary Gordon
1930
Carol Baldwin
1936
Mary Spengler
1928
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
1935
Joan Hoyt
1933
Constance Milligan
1943
Jane Matthews / Emma
1935
Ruth Hale
1927
Claire Peyton
1936
Mary Brown
1924
Irene Vail
1937
Ada Greene
1929
1926
Eunice Morgan
1926
Mary Jones
1941
Marie Wells
1926
Rose Craddock
1925
Mary Watkins
1924
1966
Ruth Hutt
1929
Judith Marsden
1930
Ruth Wells
1926
Nancy Norton
1924
Jean Arthur
1938
Vicky Lowndes
1940
Paula Bradford
1936
Ann Playdell
1923
Sally Harris
1925
Mary Watkins
1926
Margaret Rendleby
1933
Janie Anderson
1944
Bonnie Norton
1924
Janie Barry
1929
Flapper
1924
Mildred Wayland
1930
Barbara Olwell
1931
Ruth Burroghs
1926
June Mathews
1925
Ramona
1927
Grace Ryan
1926
Betty Conway
1924
Self (archive footage)
2008
Ruth Burroughs
1925
Faith Newton
1927
Dud's Sweetheart
1924
(archive footage)
1953
Sandra
1928
1923
Margie Blake
1927
Margaret Cranston
1926
Marie Denton
1926
The Girl
1927
Mary
1928
Sylvia Martine
1931
Mary Post
1928
Angela Boothby
1926
1926
Miss Baker
1927
Loria Gatlin
1925
Jean
1924
Madame Maxine
1923
1927
1923