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