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