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