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