Jean Arthur

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: Acting

Born: Plattsburgh, New York, USA, 1900-10-16

Died: 1991-06-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	Cameo Kirby	Ann Playdell	58
2	1923	Somebody Lied		0
3	1923	Monks a la Mode	Madame Maxine	0
4	1923	Spring Fever		0
5	1924	Case Dismissed	Jean	0
6	1924	The Powerful Eye	Dud's Sweetheart	0
7	1924	Wine of Youth	Flapper	80
8	1924	Fast and Fearless	Mary Brown	0
9	1924	Biff Bang Buddy	Bonnie Norton	0
10	1924	Bringin' Home the Bacon	Nancy Norton	0
11	1924	Thundering Romance	Mary Watkins	0
12	1924	Travelin' Fast	Betty Conway	0
13	1925	Seven Chances	Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)	75
14	1925	The Drug Store Cowboy	Jean	0
15	1925	The Fighting Smile	Rose Craddock	0
16	1925	Tearin' Loose	Sally Harris	0
17	1925	A Man of Nerve	Loria Gatlin	0
18	1925	The Iron Horse	Reporter (uncredited)	66
19	1925	The Hurricane Horseman	June Mathews	0
20	1925	Thundering Through	Ruth Burroughs	0
21	1926	Under Fire	Margaret Cranston	0
22	1926	The Roaring Rider	Mary Watkins	0
23	1926	Born to Battle	Eunice Morgan	0
24	1926	The Fighting Cheat	Ruth Wells	0
25	1926	Eight-Cylinder Bull		0
26	1926	The Mad Racer		0
27	1926	Ridin' Rivals	Ruth Burroghs	0
28	1926	Double Daring	Marie Wells	0
29	1926	Lightning Bill	Marie Denton	0
30	1926	The Cowboy Cop	Virginia Selby	0
31	1926	Twisted Triggers	Ruth Regan	0
32	1926	The College Boob	Angela Boothby	100
33	1926	The Block Signal	Grace Ryan	0
34	1927	Winners Of The Wilderness	Bit Role (uncredited)	75
35	1927	Husband Hunters	Lettie Crane	10
36	1927	Hello Lafayette		0
37	1927	The Broken Gate	Ruth Hale	0
38	1927	Horse Shoes	Miss Baker	0
39	1927	Bigger and Better Blondes	Ramona	0
40	1927	The Poor Nut	Margie Blake	0
41	1927	The Masked Menace	Faith Newton	0
42	1927	Flying Luck	The Girl	0
43	1928	Wallflowers	Sandra	0
44	1928	Warming Up	Mary Post	0
45	1928	Brotherly Love	Mary	0
46	1928	Sins of the Fathers	Mary Spengler	60
47	1929	The Canary Murder Case	Alice LaFosse	56
48	1929	Stairs of Sand	Ruth Hutt	0
49	1929	The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu	Lia Eltham	53
50	1929	The Greene Murder Case	Ada Greene	58
51	1929	The Saturday Night Kid	Janie Barry	44
52	1929	Half Way to Heaven	Greta Nelson	50
53	1930	Street of Chance	Judith Marsden	66
54	1930	Young Eagles	Mary Gordon	60
55	1930	Paramount on Parade	Dream Girl	61
56	1930	The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu	Lia Eltham	50
57	1930	The Silver Horde	Mildred Wayland	53
58	1931	Danger Lights	Mary Ryan	59
59	1931	The Gang Buster	Sylvia Martine	58
60	1931	Virtuous Husband	Barbara Olwell	0
61	1931	The Lawyer's Secret	Beatrice Stevens	58
62	1931	Ex-Bad Boy	Ethel Simmons	0
63	1933	The Past of Mary Holmes	Joan Hoyt	0
64	1933	Get That Venus	Margaret Rendleby	50
65	1934	Whirlpool	Sandra Rankin Morrison	61
66	1934	Most Precious Thing in Life	Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe	52
67	1934	The Defense Rests	Joan Hayes	70
68	1935	The Whole Town's Talking	Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark	68
69	1935	Party Wire	Marge Oliver	80
70	1935	Public Hero Number 1	Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly	62
71	1935	Diamond Jim	Jane Matthews / Emma	60
72	1935	The Public Menace	Cassie Nicholls	50
73	1935	If You Could Only Cook	Joan Hawthorne	74
74	1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Babe Bennett	75
75	1936	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford	Paula Bradford	62
76	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
77	1936	Adventure in Manhattan	Claire Peyton	58
78	1936	The Plainsman	Calamity Jane	63
79	1936	More Than a Secretary	Carol Baldwin	64
80	1937	History Is Made at Night	Irene Vail	67
81	1937	Easy Living	Mary Smith	70
82	1938	Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12	Jean Arthur	60
83	1938	You Can't Take It with You	Alice Sycamore	75
84	1939	Only Angels Have Wings	Bonnie Lee	73
85	1939	Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1	Self	60
86	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Clarissa Saunders	79
87	1940	Too Many Husbands	Vicky Lowndes	63
88	1940	Arizona	Phoebe Titus	62
89	1941	The Devil and Miss Jones	Mary Jones	77
90	1942	The Talk of the Town	Nora Shelley	73
91	1943	The More the Merrier	Constance Milligan	68
92	1943	A Lady Takes a Chance	Molly J. Truesdale	57
93	1944	The Impatient Years	Janie Anderson	63
94	1948	A Foreign Affair	Congresswoman Phoebe Frost	71
95	1953	Shane	Marian Starrett	74
96	1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)	0
97	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)	33
98	1984	Going Hollywood: The '30s	(archive footage)	100
99	1985	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Self (archive footage)	56
100	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Self (archive footage)	80
101	1998	Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero	Self (archive footage)	70
102	1999	Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl	Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)	77
103	2008	Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Gunsmoke	Julie Blane	66
2	1966	The Jean Arthur Show		60

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