Jean Arthur
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday17 October 1900
Died19 June 1991 (age 90)
Place of birthPlattsburgh, New York, USA
Known credits107
Biography
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 one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur,” and her work remains central to the style’s legacy. Arthur rose to prominence in the mid‑1930s and became best known for h…
Becoming Cary Grant
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998 · Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
The Jean Arthur Show
1966
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961 · Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
1955 · Julie Blane
Yesterday and Today
1953 · (archive footage)
Shane
1953 · Marian Starrett
A Foreign Affair
1948 · Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
The Impatient Years
1944 · Janie Anderson
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943 · Molly J. Truesdale
The More the Merrier
1943 · Constance Milligan
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Nora Shelley
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · Mary Jones
Arizona
1940 · Phoebe Titus
Too Many Husbands
1940 · Vicky Lowndes
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Clarissa Saunders
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939 · Self
Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · Bonnie Lee
You Can't Take It with You
1938 · Alice Sycamore
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1938 · Jean Arthur
Easy Living
1937 · Mary Smith
History Is Made at Night
1937 · Irene Vail
More Than a Secretary
1936 · Carol Baldwin
The Plainsman
1936 · Calamity Jane
Adventure in Manhattan
1936 · Claire Peyton
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936 · Self
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Paula Bradford
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Babe Bennett
If You Could Only Cook
1935 · Joan Hawthorne
The Public Menace
1935 · Cassie Nicholls
Diamond Jim
1935 · Jane Matthews / Emma
Public Hero Number 1
1935 · Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
Party Wire
1935 · Marge Oliver
The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
The Defense Rests
1934 · Joan Hayes
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934 · Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
Whirlpool
1934 · Sandy
Get That Venus
1933 · Margaret Rendleby
The Past of Mary Holmes
1933 · Joan Hoyt
Ex-Bad Boy
1931 · Ethel Simmons
The Lawyer's Secret
1931 · Beatrice Stevens
Virtuous Husband
1931 · Barbara Olwell
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