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