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Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.. Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can't Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Smith Goes to ...
Jean Arthur. Actress: You Can't Take It with You. This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene in upstate New York, 20 miles south of ...
Jean Arthur. Actress: You Can't Take It with You. This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene in upstate New York, 20 miles south of ...
Jun 14, 2016 · In the 1930s, when so many women in America were still relegated to the kitchen and nursery, one actress in Hollywood became a star playing independent women who worked for a living, competing with men in a man’s world.
Film Year Title Role Notes 1923 Cameo Kirby: Ann Playdell Somebody Lied: Short subject Spring Fever: Short subject 1924 Case Dismissed: Short subject
Jul 22, 2024 · When her movie contract expired in 1944, Arthur, who had a chronic case of camera jitters, gladly retired from film. She was lured back to Hollywood to star, with Marlene Dietrich, in a comedy of postwar Berlin, Foreign Affair (1948), and in the western classic Shane (1953). She portrayed a lawyer in her own television series, The Jean Arthur Show, in 1966 and made occasional appearances on ...
Jun 20, 1991 · Jean Arthur, whose wit and cracked husky child-woman voice made her one of Hollywood's most popular comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, died Wednesday in Carmel.
May 4, 2020 · I n 1940 came one of Arthur’s less scrutinized roles, in Wesley Ruggles’s impressive, unique Arizona. This picture, unlike the superb Easy Living (1937), has not grown in reputation over the years and was considered by some a standard, even substandard, western, which is a shame. In moments it feels ahead of its time—with its dirtier depiction of early Tucson, rough and unscrubbed (the ...
Jun 20, 1991 · Jean Arthur, the buoyant actress whose piquant charm and infectious laughter enriched some of the finest comedy dramas of the 1930's and 40's, died yesterday at the Carmel Convalescent Hospital in ...
Jun 3, 2024 · Jean Arthur was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.Arthur had feature ro...
