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