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
Harry Carey
President of the Senate
James Stewart
Jefferson Smith
Dub Taylor
Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Thomas Mitchell
Diz Moore
Jesse Graves
Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Frank Austin
Inventor (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Edward Arnold
Jim Taylor
Chester Conklin
Reporter (uncredited)
Delmar Watson
Jimmie Hopper
Tommy Bupp
Cheering Boy (uncredited)
John Russell
Hopper Boy
Larry Steers
Committeeman (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
Editor (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Committeeman (uncredited)
Gladys Gale
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham
(uncredited)
Claude Rains
Joseph Paine
Frank Puglia
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Senator (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Senator (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Ann Doran
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
Chick McGann
Charles Lane
Nosey
Dorothy Comingore
Woman at Station (uncredited)
William Demarest
Bill Griffith
Frederick Vroom
Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Ruth Donnelly
Emma Hopper
Wilfred Lucas
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Reporter (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr.
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
Schultz (uncredited)
Porter Hall
Senator Monroe
Dickie Jones
Richard Jones (uncredited)
Sammy McKim
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Beulah Bondi
Ma Smith
James Millican
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
Senate Majority Leader
Hank Mann
Photographer (uncredited)
Jean Arthur
Clarissa Saunders
Dick Elliott
Carl Cook
Matt McHugh
Reporter (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
Diggs (uncredited)
Dave Willock
Senate Guard (uncredited)
William Newell
Reporter (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Reporter (uncredited)
Larry Simms
Hopper Boy
Jack Carson
Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
John Dilson
Secretary (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Reporter (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Bob Walker
Senator Holland (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
Hendricks (uncredited)
Craig Stevens
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Russell Simpson
Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
George Cooper
Waiter (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Family Man (uncredited)
Joe King
Summers (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Guy Kibbee
Governor Hopper
George Chandler
Reporter (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Senator Hodges (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Frances Gifford
Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Astrid Allwyn
Susan Paine
Mary Gordon
Woman (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
(uncredited)
Robert Middlemass
Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
Senator Barnes
Jack Egan
Reporter (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Senator Albert (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
Senator MacPherson
Sam Ash
Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
John Ince
Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Reporter (uncredited)
Alec Craig
Speaker (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Barber (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
Reporter (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
Porter (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
Committeeman (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Butler (uncredited)
Jack Rice
Lang (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Committeeman (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Reporter (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
Senator Gower (uncredited)
Edwin August
Senator (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Porter (uncredited)
Johnny Russell
Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
Head Sister (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Photographer (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
John Ward
Photographer (uncredited)
June Gittelson
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Jack Cooper
Photographer (uncredited)
George McKay
Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
William Worthington
Committeeman (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter
Announcer (uncredited)
Victor Travis
Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
Nun (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist
Chorus Member (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
Senate Reporter (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)
Frederick Burton
Senator Dearhorn (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)
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)
Jane Loofbourrow
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Eleanor Wood
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Gus Glassmire
Angry Committee Member (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
David Wade
(uncredited)

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