Comedy Drama
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Directed by
Frank Capra
James Stewart
Jefferson Smith
Claude Rains
Joseph Paine
Dub Taylor
Reporter (uncredited)
Thomas Mitchell
Diz Moore
Jack Carson
Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
Beulah Bondi
Ma Smith
John Russell
Hopper Boy
Mary Gordon
Woman (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Family Man (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Nosey
Guy Kibbee
Governor Hopper
Alec Craig
Speaker (uncredited)
Porter Hall
Senator Monroe
Ann Doran
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
Russell Simpson
Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
James Millican
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Butler (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
Committeeman (uncredited)
Craig Stevens
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
Reporter (uncredited)
William Demarest
Bill Griffith
Grant Mitchell
Senator MacPherson
Al Bridge
Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Ruth Donnelly
Emma Hopper
Harry Carey
President of the Senate
George Chandler
Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Committeeman (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Reporter (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Reporter (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
Senator Barnes
Eddie Kane
Reporter (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Frank Austin
Inventor (uncredited)
Jean Arthur
Clarissa Saunders
Bob Walker
Senator Holland (uncredited)
Joe King
Summers (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Carl Cook
Edmund Cobb
Senator Gower (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
Head Sister (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Reporter (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Photographer (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Larry Simms
Hopper Boy
Gene Morgan
Reporter (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Photographer (uncredited)
Dave Willock
Senate Guard (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
Chick McGann
Tommy Bupp
Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Reporter (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
Schultz (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Barber (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Senator (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Astrid Allwyn
Susan Paine
William Newell
Reporter (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
Senate Majority Leader
Edward Arnold
Jim Taylor
Anne Cornwall
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
Richard Jones (uncredited)
Jack Cooper
Photographer (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Jack Rice
Lang (uncredited)
George McKay
Reporter (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
Nun (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Reporter (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom
Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Johnny Russell
Otis Hopper (uncredited)
John Dilson
Secretary (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Senator Albert (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
Committeewoman (uncredited)
John Ince
Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Bodyguard (uncredited)
George Cooper
Waiter (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
Diggs (uncredited)
Robert Middlemass
Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
Frances Gifford
Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Sammy McKim
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Reporter (uncredited)
Delmar Watson
Jimmie Hopper
John Tyrrell
(uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
Editor (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jack Egan
Reporter (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Jesse Graves
Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
William Worthington
Committeeman (uncredited)
Edwin August
Senator (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Committeeman (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Porter (uncredited)
Frederick Burton
Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)
Gladys Gale
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Victor Travis
Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
Hendricks (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Senator (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Committeeman (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham
(uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr.
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
June Gittelson
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
Porter (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter
Announcer (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist
Chorus Member (uncredited)
Billy Watson
Peter Hopper
Harry Watson
Hopper Boy
Garry Watson
Hopper Boy
H.V. Kaltenborn
Radio Broadcaster
Colin James Mackey
Narrator (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
Hopper's Butler (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Senator Hammett (uncredited)
Stanley Mack
Senator (uncredited)
Kathryn Bates
Committeewoman (uncredited)
William Arnold
Reporter (uncredited)
Tommy Baker
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Ed Brewer
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Burr Caruth
Townsend (uncredited)
Allan Cavan
Ragner (uncredited)
Richard Clucas
(uncredited)
Shirley Coates
Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Photographer (uncredited)
Hal Cooke
Reporter (uncredited)
Georgie Cooper
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Nick Copeland
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Beatrice Curtis
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Lew Davis
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Dulcie Day
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Wally Dean
Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Waiter (uncredited)
Clyde Dilson
Reporter (uncredited)
Neal Dodd
Senate Chaplain (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Senator Byron (uncredited)
Wright Kramer
Senator Carlton (uncredited)
Fred Hoose
Senator (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Senator (uncredited)
Roger Haliday
Senate Guard (uncredited)
Wilfred Hari
House Boy (uncredited)
Dick Jensen
Hoodlum (uncredited)
John Lester Johnson
Butler (uncredited)
Billy Lechner
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Jackie Lowe
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
P.H. Levy
Rabbi (uncredited)
Jack Low
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Jimmie Lucas
Photographer (uncredited)
Ralph McCullough
Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Field Norton
Pompous Man (uncredited)
James McNamara
Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Morgan
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Ray Nichols
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Alex Novinsky
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Frank Otto
Fisk (uncredited)
Joe Palma
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Spencer Quinn
(uncredited)
Tom Quinn
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Ed Randolph
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Charles Regan
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Harry Stafford
Senator Atwater (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore
Senator (uncredited)
Arthur Thalasso
Doorman (uncredited)
Edward Thomas
Butler (uncredited)
Laura Treadwell
Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
Myonne Walsh
Jane Hopper (uncredited)
Max Waizmann
Photographer (uncredited)
John Ward
Photographer (uncredited)
Jane Loofbourrow
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Eleanor Wood
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Gus Glassmire
Angry Committee Member (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
David Wade
(uncredited)

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