Jean Arthur
Birthday: 1900-10-16 | Place of Birth: Plattsburgh, New York, USAJean 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.
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as Marian Starrett
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
as Janie Anderson
as Constance Milligan
as Miss Nora Shelley
as Phoebe Titus
as Clarissa Saunders
as Alice Sycamore
as Irene Vail
as Mary Smith
as Babe Bennett
as Calamity Jane
as Carol Baldwin
as Claire Peyton
as Paula Bradford
as Joan Hawthorne
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
as Sandra Rankin Morrison
as Ethel Simmons
as Dream Girl
as Lia Eltham
as Mary Ryan
as Ada Greene
as Alice LaFosse
as Janie Barry
as Lia Eltham
as Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
