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