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