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