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