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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 16, 1900
Died
June 19, 1991
Place of Birth
Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Gladys Georgianna Greene
Jean Arthur
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
2008
7.7
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
10.0
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
6.0
The Jean Arthur Show
1966
6.6
Julie Blane
Gunsmoke
1955
0.0
(archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
1953
7.4
Marian Starrett
Shane
1953
7.1
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
A Foreign Affair
1948
Credits
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
as Self (archive footage)
2008
0.0
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1999
7.7
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
as Self (archive footage)
1998
7.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
The Jean Arthur Show
1966
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Julie Blane
1955
6.6
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
0.0
Shane
as Marian Starrett
1953
7.4
A Foreign Affair
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
1948
7.1
The Impatient Years
as Janie Anderson
1944
6.3
A Lady Takes a Chance
as Molly J. Truesdale
1943
5.6
The More the Merrier
as Constance Milligan
1943
6.9
The Talk of the Town
as Nora Shelley
1942
7.3
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Mary Jones
1941
7.7
Arizona
as Phoebe Titus
1940
6.3
Too Many Husbands
as Vicky Lowndes
1940
6.3
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Clarissa Saunders
1939
7.8
🎬
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
1939
6.0
Only Angels Have Wings
as Bonnie Lee
1939
7.3
You Can't Take It with You
as Alice Sycamore
1938
7.5
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
as Jean Arthur
1938
6.0
Easy Living
as Mary Smith
1937
7.1
History Is Made at Night
as Irene Vail
1937
6.6
More Than a Secretary
as Carol Baldwin
1936
6.4
The Plainsman
as Calamity Jane
1936
6.3
Adventure in Manhattan
as Claire Peyton
1936
5.8
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
1936
6.0
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Paula Bradford
1936
6.2
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Babe Bennett
1936
7.5
If You Could Only Cook
as Joan Hawthorne
1935
7.4
The Public Menace
as Cassie Nicholls
1935
5.0
Diamond Jim
as Jane Matthews / Emma
1935
6.0
Public Hero Number 1
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
1935
6.2
Party Wire
as Marge Oliver
1935
8.0
The Whole Town's Talking
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
1935
6.8
The Defense Rests
as Joan Hayes
1934
7.0
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
1934
5.2
Whirlpool
as Sandy
1934
5.9
Get That Venus
as Margaret Rendleby
1933
5.0
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Joan Hoyt
1933
0.0
Ex-Bad Boy
as Ethel Simmons
1931
0.0
The Lawyer's Secret
as Beatrice Stevens
1931
5.8
Virtuous Husband
as Barbara Olwell
1931
0.0
The Gang Buster
as Sylvia Martine
1931
5.8
Danger Lights
as Mary Ryan
1931
5.9
The Silver Horde
as Mildred Wayland
1930
5.3
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Lia Eltham
1930
5.3
Paramount on Parade
as Dream Girl
1930
6.1
Young Eagles
as Mary Gordon
1930
6.0
Street of Chance
as Judith Marsden
1930
6.6
Half Way to Heaven
as Greta Nelson
1929
5.0
The Saturday Night Kid
as Janie Barry
1929
4.4
The Greene Murder Case
as Ada Greene
1929
6.0
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
as Lia Eltham
1929
5.6
Stairs of Sand
as Ruth Hutt
1929
0.0
The Canary Murder Case
as Alice LaFosse
1929
5.7
Sins of the Fathers
as Mary Spengler
1928
6.0
Brotherly Love
as Mary
1928
0.0
Warming Up
as Mary Post
1928
0.0
Wallflowers
as Sandra
1928
0.0
Flying Luck
as The Girl
1927
0.0
The Masked Menace
as Faith Newton
1927
0.0
🎬
The Poor Nut
as Margie Blake
1927
0.0
Bigger and Better Blondes
as Ramona
1927
0.0
Horse Shoes
as Miss Baker
1927
0.0
The Broken Gate
as Ruth Hale
1927
0.0
Hello Lafayette
1927
0.0
Winners Of The Wilderness
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1927
7.5
Husband Hunters
as Lettie Crane
1927
1.0
The Block Signal
as Grace Ryan
1926
0.0
The College Boob
as Angela Boothby
1926
10.0
🎬
Twisted Triggers
as Ruth Regan
1926
0.0
The Cowboy Cop
as Virginia Selby
1926
0.0
🎬
Lightning Bill
as Marie Denton
1926
0.0
Double Daring
as Marie Wells
1926
0.0
🎬
Ridin' Rivals
as Ruth Burroghs
1926
0.0
🎬
The Mad Racer
1926
0.0
🎬
Eight-Cylinder Bull
1926
0.0
🎬
The Fighting Cheat
as Ruth Wells
1926
0.0
Born to Battle
as Eunice Morgan
1926
0.0
🎬
The Roaring Rider
as Mary Watkins
1926
0.0
🎬
Under Fire
as Margaret Cranston
1926
0.0
🎬
Thundering Through
as Ruth Burroughs
1925
0.0
🎬
The Hurricane Horseman
as June Mathews
1925
0.0
The Iron Horse
as Reporter (uncredited)
1925
6.7
A Man of Nerve
as Loria Gatlin
1925
0.0
Tearin' Loose
as Sally Harris
1925
0.0
The Fighting Smile
as Rose Craddock
1925
0.0
The Drug Store Cowboy
as Jean
1925
0.0
Seven Chances
as Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
1925
7.5
🎬
Travelin' Fast
as Betty Conway
1924
0.0
Thundering Romance
as Mary Watkins
1924
0.0
Bringin' Home the Bacon
as Nancy Norton
1924
0.0
Wine of Youth
as Flapper
1924
8.0
Biff Bang Buddy
as Bonnie Norton
1924
0.0
Fast and Fearless
as Mary Brown
1924
0.0
🎬
The Powerful Eye
as Dud's Sweetheart
1924
0.0
🎬
Case Dismissed
as Jean
1924
0.0
Spring Fever
1923
0.0
🎬
Monks a la Mode
as Madame Maxine
1923
0.0
🎬
Somebody Lied
1923
0.0
Cameo Kirby
as Ann Playdell
1923
5.8