Biography
Jean Arthur 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."
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Filmography
Acting Credits (104)
Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
2017
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
Self (archive footage)
2008
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1999
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Self (archive footage)
1998
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
