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