Person Details

Birthday: 1900-10-17 16:31:19

Death: 1991-06-19 16:31:19

Aliases: Gladys Georgianna Greene

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Plattsburgh, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 59

TV Involvements: 2


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 quintessential comedic leading lady." Arthur is best known for her feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the everyday heroine. Her last performance was the memorable—and distinctly non–comedic—role as the rancher's wife in George Stevens' Shane (1953). Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Arthur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Gunsmoke
Average
7

Gunsmoke

(1955) Julie Blane
This Is Your Life
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6

This Is Your Life

(1955) self
Shane
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8

Shane

(1953) Marian Starrett
Only Angels Have Wings
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7

Only Angels Have Wings

(1939) Bonnie Lee
The Iron Horse
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7

The Iron Horse

(1924) Reporter
History Is Made at Night
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7

History Is Made at Night

(1937) Irene Vail
Arizona
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6

Arizona

(1940) Phoebe Titus
The Plainsman
Average
6

The Plainsman

(1936) Calamity Jane

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2008 Self (archive footage)
1999 Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1988 (archive footage)
1985 N/A
1984 (archive footage)
1966 N/A
1961 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955 Julie Blane
self
1953 (archive footage)
Marian Starrett
1948 Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Self (archive footage)
1944 Janie Anderson
1943 Molly J. Truesdale
Constance Milligan
1942 Miss Nora Shelley
1941 Mary Jones
1940 Phoebe Titus
Vicky Lowndes
1939 Clarissa Saunders
N/A
Bonnie Lee
1938 Alice Sycamore
Jean Arthur
1937 Mary Smith
Irene Vail
1936 Carol Baldwin
Calamity Jane
Claire Peyton
Self
Paula Bradford
Babe Bennett
1935 Joan Hawthorne
Cassie Nicholls
Jane Matthews / Emma
Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
Marge Oliver
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
1934 Joan Hayes
Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
Sandra Rankin Morrison
1933 Margaret Rendleby
Joan Hoyt
1931 Ethel Simmons
Beatrice Stevens
Barbara Olwell
Sylvia Martine
1930 Mildred Wayland
Mary Ryan
Self (from original version)
Lia Eltham
Dream Girl
Mary Gordon
Judith Marsden
1929 Greta Nelson
Janie Barry
Ada Greene
Lia Eltham
Ruth Hutt
Alice LaFosse
1928 Mary Spengler
Mary
Mary Post
Sandra
1927 The Girl
Faith
Margie Blake
N/A
Miss Baker
Ruth Hale
N/A
Lettie Crane
Bit Role (uncredited)
1926 Grace Ryan
Angela Boothby
Ruth Regan
Virginia Selby
Marie Denton
Marie Wells
Ruth Burroghs
N/A
N/A
Ruth Wells
Eunice Morgan
Mary Watkins
Margaret Cranston
1925 Ruth Burroughs
June Mathews
Loria Gatlin
Sally Harris
Rose Craddock
Jean
Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
1924 Betty Conway
Mary Watkins
Nancy Norton
Mary Brown
Flapper
Bonnie Norton
Reporter
Dud's Sweetheart
N/A
1923 N/A
N/A
Ann Playdell
Year Character Movie/Tv

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