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 Self (archive footage)
as Marian Starrett
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
as Janie Anderson
as Constance Milligan
as Molly J. Truesdale
as Nora Shelley
as Mary Jones
as Phoebe Titus
as Vicky Lowndes
as Bonnie Lee
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 Jane Matthews / Emma
as Joan Hawthorne
as Marge Oliver
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
