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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, Myles Connolly
Cast James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Plot A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Robert Riskin, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Cast Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Plot The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Robert Riskin, Clarence Budington Kelland
Cast Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Plot A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
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Shane (1953)
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Director George Stevens
Writer A.B. Guthrie Jr., Jack Sher, Jack Schaefer
Cast Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Plot An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks, Eleanore Griffin
Cast Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth
Plot At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.
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The Talk of the Town (1942)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman, Dale Van Every
Cast Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
Plot An escaped prisoner must prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with help from a spirited schoolteacher.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy
Cast Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Plot During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
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A Foreign Affair (1948)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen
Cast Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Plot In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
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Director Sam Wood
Writer Norman Krasna
Cast Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Plot A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
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Easy Living (1937)
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Director Mitchell Leisen
Writer Preston Sturges, Vera Caspary
Cast Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Plot When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
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Director John Ford
Writer Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin, W.R. Burnett
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl
Plot A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.
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History Is Made at Night (1937)
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Director Frank Borzage
Writer Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, Vincent Lawrence
Cast Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Plot A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
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The Plainsman (1936)
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Director Cecil B. DeMille
Writer Waldemar Young, Harold Lamb, Lynn Riggs
Cast Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison
Plot Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
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Director Stephen Roberts
Writer Anthony Veiller, James Edward Grant
Cast William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
Plot A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.
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If You Could Only Cook (1935)
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Director William A. Seiter
Writer Howard J. Green, Gertrude Purcell, F. Hugh Herbert
Cast Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Plot An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.
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Arizona (1940)
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Director Wesley Ruggles
Writer Claude Binyon, Clarence Budington Kelland
Cast Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
Plot In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
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Too Many Husbands (1940)
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Director Wesley Ruggles
Writer Claude Binyon, W. Somerset Maugham
Cast Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas
Plot Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
