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