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