Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Romance, drama, laughter and heartbreak... created out of the very heart and soil of America!

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.

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James Stewart

Jefferson Smith

Jean Arthur

Clarissa Saunders

Claude Rains

Joseph Paine

Edward Arnold

Jim Taylor

Guy Kibbee

Governor Hopper

Thomas Mitchell

Diz Moore

Eugene Pallette

Chick McGann

Beulah Bondi

Ma Smith

H.B. Warner

Senate Majority Leader

Harry Carey

President of the Senate

Astrid Allwyn

Susan Paine

Ruth Donnelly

Emma Hopper

Grant Mitchell

Senator MacPherson

Porter Hall

Senator Monroe

Pierre Watkin

Senator Barnes

Charles Lane

Nosey

William Demarest

Bill Griffith

Dick Elliott

Carl Cook

B

Billy Watson

Peter Hopper

Delmar Watson

Jimmie Hopper

John Russell

Hopper Boy

H

Harry Watson

Hopper Boy

G

Garry Watson

Hopper Boy

Larry Simms

Hopper Boy

H

H.V. Kaltenborn

Radio Broadcaster

Russell Simpson

Kenneth Allen (uncredited)

Frances Gifford

Hopper Girl (uncredited)

C

Colin James Mackey

Narrator (uncredited)

W

Wilson Benge

Hopper's Butler (uncredited)

Dickie Jones

Richard Jones (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Frank Puglia

Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Maurice Cass

Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Stanley Andrews

Senator Hodges (uncredited)

Al Bridge

Senator Dwight (uncredited)

Edwin August

Senator (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Senator Gower (uncredited)

Sam Ash

Senator Lancaster (uncredited)

H

Harry A. Bailey

Senator Hammett (uncredited)

S

Stanley Mack

Senator (uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

Senate Clerk (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

Family Man (uncredited)

Dorothy Comingore

Woman at Station (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Reporter (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

Barber (uncredited)

Ann Doran

Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Robert Emmett Keane

Editor (uncredited)

Matt McHugh

Reporter (uncredited)

K

Kathryn Bates

Committeewoman (uncredited)

Frank Austin

Inventor (uncredited)

W

William Arnold

Reporter (uncredited)

T

Tommy Baker

Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Robert Sterling

Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Dub Taylor

Reporter (uncredited)

George Chandler

Reporter (uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Porter (uncredited)

Jack Carson

Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)

Tommy Bupp

Cheering Boy (uncredited)

Dora Clement

Mrs. McGann (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Man in Senate Building (uncredited)

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