Jean Arthur

Acting

Jean Arthur

Born October 17, 1900 · Plattsburgh, New York, USA

Died June 19, 1991 · aged 90

Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress celebrated as one of the defining screen personalities of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Known for her quick wit, expressive voice, and understated charm, she became one of the era’s most beloved comedic leading ladies, especially in the screwball comedy genre. Film historian James Harvey noted that “no …

Known For

ShaneShane · 1953
Shane
7.31953
MovieDramaWestern
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
The More the MerrierThe More the Merrier · 1943
The More the Merrier
7.01943
MovieComedyRomance
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonMr. Smith Goes to Washington · 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.81939
MovieComedyDrama
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
You Can't Take It with YouYou Can't Take It with You · 1938
You Can't Take It with You
7.51938
MovieComedyRomance
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Only Angels Have WingsOnly Angels Have Wings · 1939
Only Angels Have Wings
7.31939
MovieRomanceAdventure
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Mr. Deeds Goes to TownMr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.51936
MovieComedyDrama
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
The Whole Town's TalkingThe Whole Town's Talking · 1935
The Whole Town's Talking
6.91935
MovieComedyCrime
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Warming UpWarming Up · 1928
Warming Up
9.01928
MovieComedyRomance
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.

Movies

ShaneShane · 1953
Shane
7.31953
MovieDramaWestern
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
The More the MerrierThe More the Merrier · 1943
The More the Merrier
7.01943
MovieComedyRomance
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonMr. Smith Goes to Washington · 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.81939
MovieComedyDrama
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
You Can't Take It with YouYou Can't Take It with You · 1938
You Can't Take It with You
7.51938
MovieComedyRomance
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Only Angels Have WingsOnly Angels Have Wings · 1939
Only Angels Have Wings
7.31939
MovieRomanceAdventure
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Mr. Deeds Goes to TownMr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.51936
MovieComedyDrama
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
The Whole Town's TalkingThe Whole Town's Talking · 1935
The Whole Town's Talking
6.91935
MovieComedyCrime
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Warming UpWarming Up · 1928
Warming Up
9.01928
MovieComedyRomance
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
Seven ChancesSeven Chances · 1925
Seven Chances
7.51925
MovieComedyRomance
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Virtuous HusbandVirtuous Husband · 1931
Virtuous Husband
8.01931
MovieComedyRomance
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
Thundering RomanceThundering Romance · 1924
Thundering Romance
7.01924
MovieActionAdventure
A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the WindThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind · 1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8.21988
MovieDocumentary
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Double DaringDouble Daring · 1926
Double Daring
10.01926
MovieWestern
A timid bank clerk has to toughen up during the search for a gang of bank robbers.
Brotherly LoveBrotherly Love · 1928
Brotherly Love
8.01928
MovieDramaComedy
Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
ArizonaArizona · 1940
Arizona
6.51940
MovieWestern
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
The Iron HorseThe Iron Horse · 1925
The Iron Horse
6.71925
MovieWesternDrama
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
A Foreign AffairA Foreign Affair · 1948
A Foreign Affair
7.11948
MovieRomanceComedy
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
Ex-Bad BoyEx-Bad Boy · 1931
Ex-Bad Boy
8.01931
MovieRomanceComedy
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
The Talk of the TownThe Talk of the Town · 1942
The Talk of the Town
7.31942
MovieComedyDrama
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Horse ShoesHorse Shoes · 1927
Horse Shoes
9.01927
MovieComedy
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
Easy LivingEasy Living · 1937
Easy Living
7.11937
MovieComedyRomance
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
The PlainsmanThe Plainsman · 1936
The Plainsman
6.51936
MovieWesternWar
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
The Ex-Mrs. BradfordThe Ex-Mrs. Bradford · 1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
6.21936
MovieComedyMystery
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
If You Could Only CookIf You Could Only Cook · 1935
If You Could Only Cook
7.51935
MovieComedyRomance
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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