Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur 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...
Jean Arthur 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...
Known For
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Clarissa Saunders
Shane
as Marian Starrett
You Can't Take It with You
as Alice Sycamore
Cast Credits
Shane
as Marian Starrett
A Foreign Affair
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
The Impatient Years
as Janie Anderson
A Lady Takes a Chance
as Molly J. Truesdale
The More the Merrier
as Constance Milligan
The Talk of the Town
as Nora Shelley
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Mary Jones
Arizona
as Phoebe Titus
Too Many Husbands
as Vicky Lowndes
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Clarissa Saunders
Only Angels Have Wings
as Bonnie Lee
You Can't Take It with You
as Alice Sycamore
Easy Living
as Mary Smith
History Is Made at Night
as Irene Vail
More Than a Secretary
as Carol Baldwin
The Plainsman
as Calamity Jane
Adventure in Manhattan
as Claire Peyton
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Paula Bradford
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Babe Bennett
If You Could Only Cook
as Joan Hawthorne
The Public Menace
as Cassie Nicholls
Diamond Jim
as Jane Matthews / Emma
Public Hero Number 1
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
Party Wire
as Marge Oliver
The Whole Town's Talking
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
The Defense Rests
as Joan Hayes
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
Whirlpool
as Sandy
Get That Venus
as Margaret Rendleby
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Joan Hoyt