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Jean Arthur is a Actor American born on 16 october 1900 at Plattsburgh (USA)

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur participated to 68 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 6 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actress

Shane
Shane (1953)
, 1h58
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Edith Evanson
Roles Marian Starrett
Rating75% 3.798473.798473.798473.798473.79847
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 2h9
Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Clarissa Saunders
Rating80% 4.048974.048974.048974.048974.04897
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
You Can't Take It with You, 2h6
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller
Roles Alice Sycamore
Rating77% 3.897493.897493.897493.897493.89749
Successful banker Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold) has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but there is one house that is a holdout to selling. Kirby instructs his real estate broker, John Blakely (Clarence Wilson), to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1h55
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists
Actors Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn
Roles Babe Bennett
Rating77% 3.897213.897213.897213.897213.89721
During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the (fictional) hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, inherits 20 million dollars from his late uncle, Martin Semple. The scheming attorney of his uncle, John Cedar (Douglass Dumbrille), locates Deeds and takes him to New York City. Cedar gives his cynical troubleshooter, ex-newspaperman Cornelius Cobb (Lionel Stander), the task of keeping reporters away from Deeds. Cobb is outfoxed, however, by star reporter Louise "Babe" Bennett (Jean Arthur), who appeals to Deeds' romantic fantasy of rescuing a damsel in distress by masquerading as a poor worker named Mary Dawson. She pretends to faint from exhaustion after "walking all day to find a job" and worms her way into his confidence. Bennett proceeds to write a series of enormously popular articles mocking Longfellow's hick ways and odd behavior, giving him the nickname "Cinderella Man.
The More the Merrier, 1h44
Directed by George Stevens, Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully
Roles Constance Milligan
Rating75% 3.7949753.7949753.7949753.7949753.794975
During World War II, retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) arrives in Washington, D.C. as an adviser on the housing shortage and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur), into letting him sublet half of her apartment. Comedy ensues when the two clumsily get in each other's way while arising and preparing for work. Connie makes things work by keeping to an exacting schedule, including eating breakfast and leaving for work at precise times. Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter (Joel McCrea), who has no place to stay while he waits to be shipped overseas. Dingle generously rents him half of his half.
A Foreign Affair, 1h56
Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Stanley Prager, William Murphy
Roles Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Rating72% 3.646473.646473.646473.646473.64647
In 1947, a United States congressional committee which includes prim Phoebe Frost of Iowa (Jean Arthur) arrives in post-World War II Berlin to visit the American troops stationed there. Phoebe hears rumors that cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), suspected of being the former mistress of either Hermann Göring or Joseph Goebbels, is being protected by an unidentified American officer. She enlists Captain John Pringle (John Lund) to assist in her investigation, unaware he is Erika's current lover.