Cast: Jean Arthur

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Claude Rains · Edward Arnold

Synopsis Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however,...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer, seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Alan Ladd · Jean Arthur · Van Heflin · Brandon De Wilde

Synopsis George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of homesteader Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) just before Ryker (Emile Meyer),...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jean Arthur · Marlene Dietrich · John Lund · Millard Mitchell

Synopsis A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty, hears rumors that cafe singer Erika, former mistress of a wanted war criminal, is "protected" by an American officer, and...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jean Arthur · Edward Arnold · Ray Milland · Luis Alberni

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Ronald Colman · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis When accused arsonist Leopold Dilg escapes jail, he hides out in the home of old friend (and sweetheart) Nora. Nora happens to be renting a farmhouse to Supreme Court candidate Michael Lightcap, but she lets Dilg hide in the attic...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Charles Boyer · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Colin Clive

Synopsis Divorcee Irene Vail falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back... Film critic Andrew Sarris once said that HISTORY IS MADE A NIGHT is the most romantic title in all of...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store, which Merrick didn't even know he owned. On a sudden...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney

Synopsis Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Charles Coburn · Richard Gaines

Synopsis It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Synopsis With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Herbert Marshall · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Lionel Stander

Synopsis Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Jean Arthur · Fred MacMurray · Melvyn Douglas · Harry Davenport

Synopsis It's been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill unexpectedly returns from the island where he was marooned, what...

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · James Gleason · Eric Blore

Synopsis Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case...

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Reginald Owen · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him. It turns out the financier of her play is a notorious art collector who steals what he...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Jean Arthur · William Holden · Warren William · Porter Hall

Synopsis Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie...

Direction Malcolm St. Clair · Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · Louise Brooks · Jean Arthur · James Hall