Jean Arthur
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1900-10-16 (91 years old)
Deathday
1991-06-19
Place of Birth
Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Also known As
Gladys Georgianna Greene
Jean Arthur
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 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 T...
Acting
1939
as Clarissa Saunders
1953
as Marian Starrett
1942
as Nora Shelley
2008
as Self (archive footage)
1937
as Irene Vail
1936
as Babe Bennett
1935
as Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
1938
as Alice Sycamore
1940
as Phoebe Titus
1941
as Mary Jones
1939
as Bonnie Lee
1936
as Calamity Jane
1948
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
1953
as (archive footage)
1943
as Molly J. Truesdale
1937
as Mary Smith
1935
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
1929
as Alice LaFosse
1943
as Constance Milligan
1925
as Reporter (uncredited)
1936
as Paula Bradford
1929
as Ada Greene
1936
as Claire Peyton
1940
as Vicky Lowndes
1934
as Ellen Holmes, aka Biddy, Babe
1935
as Joan Hawthorne
1935
as Marge Oliver
1929
as Lia Eltham
1930
as Mildred Wayland
1938
as Jean Arthur
1929
as Janie Barry
1944
as Janie Anderson
1931
as Mary Ryan
1930
as Judith Marsden
1935
as Cassie Nicholls
1924
as Flapper
1936
as Carol Baldwin
1930
as Lia Eltham
1999
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1931
as Beatrice Stevens
1926
as Grace Ryan
1934
as Sandy
1934
as Joan Hayes
1984
as (archive footage)
1961
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1927
as The Girl
1923
as Ann Playdell
1935
as Jane Matthews / Emma
1925
as Miss Smith the Country Club Receptionist (uncredited)
1931
as Ethel Simmons
1930
as Mary Gordon
1928
as Mary
1927
as Margie Blake
1929
as Greta Nelson
1998
as Self (archive footage)
1927
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1930
as Dream Girl
1928
as Mary Post
1933
as Joan Hoyt
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1925
as Jean
1936
1931
as Sylvia Martine
1927
as Miss Baker
1926
as Virginia Selby
1985
as Self (archive footage)
1939
1923
1924
as Bonnie Norton
1924
as Mary Brown
1924
as Dud's Sweetheart
1924
as Jean
1924
as Nancy Norton
1923
1926
as Angela Boothby
1929
as Ruth Hutt
1927
as Ramona
1926
as Eunice Morgan
1925
as Sally Harris
1927
1925
as Rose Craddock
1926
as Marie Denton
1925
as June Mathews
1927
as Ruth Hale
1926
1926
as Ruth Burroghs
1928
as Sandra
1924
as Mary Watkins
1926
as Ruth Wells
1925
as Ruth Burroughs
1926
as Mary Watkins
1926
as Ruth Regan
1924
as Betty Conway
1926
as Margaret Cranston
1927
as Lettie Crane
1926
as Marie Wells
1925
as Loria Gatlin
1927
as Faith Newton
1928
as Mary Spengler
1931
as Barbara Olwell
1933
as Margaret Rendleby
1923
as Madame Maxine
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