Jean Arthur
Birthday
1900/10/16
Day of death
1991/06/19 (90 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Also know as
Gladys Georgianna Greene
Biography
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 qu...Read more
Acting
(1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Clarissa Saunders
(1953) Shane
as Marian Starrett
(1942) The Talk of the Town
as Nora Shelley
(2008) Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
as Self (archive footage)
(1937) History Is Made at Night
as Irene Vail
(1936) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Babe Bennett
(1935) Public Hero Number 1
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
(1938) You Can't Take It with You
as Alice Sycamore
(1940) Arizona
as Phoebe Titus
(1941) The Devil and Miss Jones
as Mary Jones
(1939) Only Angels Have Wings
as Bonnie Lee
(1936) The Plainsman
as Calamity Jane
(1948) A Foreign Affair
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
(1953) Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1943) A Lady Takes a Chance
as Molly J. Truesdale
(1937) Easy Living
as Mary Smith
(1935) The Whole Town's Talking
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
(1929) The Canary Murder Case
as Alice LaFosse
(1943) The More the Merrier
as Constance Milligan
(1925) The Iron Horse
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1936) The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Paula Bradford
(1929) The Greene Murder Case
as Ada Greene
(1936) Adventure in Manhattan
as Claire Peyton
(1940) Too Many Husbands
as Vicky Lowndes
(1934) Most Precious Thing in Life
as Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
(1935) If You Could Only Cook
as Joan Hawthorne
(1935) Party Wire
as Marge Oliver
(1929) The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
as Lia Eltham
(1930) The Silver Horde
as Mildred Wayland
(1938) Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
as Jean Arthur
(1929) The Saturday Night Kid
as Janie Barry
(1944) The Impatient Years
as Janie Anderson
(1931) Danger Lights
as Mary Ryan
(1930) Street of Chance
as Judith Marsden
(1935) The Public Menace
as Cassie Nicholls
(1924) Wine of Youth
as Flapper
(1936) More Than a Secretary
as Carol Baldwin
(1930) The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Lia Eltham
(1999) Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
(1931) The Lawyer's Secret
as Beatrice Stevens
(1926) The Block Signal
as Grace Ryan
(1934) Whirlpool
as Sandy
(1934) The Defense Rests
as Joan Hayes
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1927) Flying Luck
as The Girl
(1923) Cameo Kirby
as Ann Playdell
(1935) Diamond Jim
as Jane Matthews / Emma
(1925) Seven Chances
as Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
(1931) Ex-Bad Boy
as Ethel Simmons
(1930) Young Eagles
as Mary Gordon
(1928) Brotherly Love
as Mary
(1927) The Poor Nut
as Margie Blake
(1929) Half Way to Heaven
as Greta Nelson
(1998) Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
as Self (archive footage)
(1927) Winners Of The Wilderness
as Bit Role (uncredited)
(1930) Paramount on Parade
as Dream Girl
(1928) Warming Up
as Mary Post
(1933) The Past of Mary Holmes
as Joan Hoyt
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1925) The Drug Store Cowboy
as Jean
(1936) Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
(1931) The Gang Buster
as Sylvia Martine
(1927) Horse Shoes
as Miss Baker
(1926) The Cowboy Cop
as Virginia Selby
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
(1923) Somebody Lied
as ---
(1924) Biff Bang Buddy
as Bonnie Norton
(1924) Fast and Fearless
as Mary Brown
(1924) The Powerful Eye
as Dud's Sweetheart
(1924) Case Dismissed
as Jean
(1924) Bringin' Home the Bacon
as Nancy Norton
(1923) Spring Fever
as ---
(1926) The College Boob
as Angela Boothby
(1929) Stairs of Sand
as Ruth Hutt
(1927) Bigger and Better Blondes
as Ramona
(1926) Born to Battle
as Eunice Morgan
(1925) Tearin' Loose
as Sally Harris
(1927) Hello Lafayette
as ---
(1925) The Fighting Smile
as Rose Craddock
(1926) Lightning Bill
as Marie Denton
(1925) The Hurricane Horseman
as June Mathews
(1927) The Broken Gate
as Ruth Hale
(1926) The Mad Racer
as ---
(1926) Ridin' Rivals
as Ruth Burroghs
(1928) Wallflowers
as Sandra
(1924) Thundering Romance
as Mary Watkins
(1926) The Fighting Cheat
as Ruth Wells
(1925) Thundering Through
as Ruth Burroughs
(1926) The Roaring Rider
as Mary Watkins
(1926) Twisted Triggers
as Ruth Regan
(1926) Eight-Cylinder Bull
as ---
(1924) Travelin' Fast
as Betty Conway
(1926) Under Fire
as Margaret Cranston
(1927) Husband Hunters
as Lettie Crane
(1926) Double Daring
as Marie Wells
(1925) A Man of Nerve
as Loria Gatlin
(1927) The Masked Menace
as Faith Newton
(1928) Sins of the Fathers
as Mary Spengler
(1931) Virtuous Husband
as Barbara Olwell
(1933) Get That Venus
as Margaret Rendleby
(1923) Monks a la Mode
as Madame Maxine
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Julie Blane
(1966) The Jean Arthur Show
as ---