Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Comedy
Drama
Romance, drama, laughter and heartbreak... created out of the very heart and soil of America!
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.
1939-10-19
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Cast
Director
Frank Capra
James Stewart as Jefferson Smith
Jean Arthur as Clarissa Saunders
Claude Rains as Joseph Paine
Edward Arnold as Jim Taylor
Guy Kibbee as Governor Hopper
Thomas Mitchell as Diz Moore
Eugene Pallette as Chick McGann
Beulah Bondi as Ma Smith
H.B. Warner as Senate Majority Leader
Harry Carey as President of the Senate
Astrid Allwyn as Susan Paine
Ruth Donnelly as Emma Hopper
Grant Mitchell as Senator MacPherson
Porter Hall as Senator Monroe
Pierre Watkin as Senator Barnes
Charles Lane as Nosey
William Demarest as Bill Griffith
Dick Elliott as Carl Cook
Delmar Watson as Jimmie Hopper
John Russell as Hopper Boy
Larry Simms as Hopper Boy
Russell Simpson as Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Frances Gifford as Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Dickie Jones as Richard Jones (uncredited)
Erville Alderson as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Frank Puglia as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Maurice Cass as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews as Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Al Bridge as Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Edwin August as Senator (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb as Senator Gower (uncredited)
Sam Ash as Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict as Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Wade Boteler as Family Man (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore as Woman at Station (uncredited)
Chester Conklin as Reporter (uncredited)
Gino Corrado as Barber (uncredited)
Ann Doran as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane as Editor (uncredited)
Matt McHugh as Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Austin as Inventor (uncredited)
Robert Sterling as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Dub Taylor as Reporter (uncredited)
George Chandler as Reporter (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Porter (uncredited)
Jack Carson as Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp as Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Dora Clement as Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley as Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Lynton Brent as Photographer (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs as Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Georgia Caine as Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter as Announcer (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler as Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark as Committeeman (uncredited)
Alec Craig as Speaker (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
George Cooper as Waiter (uncredited)
Jack Cooper as Photographer (uncredited)
Vernon Dent as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Maurice Costello as Diggs (uncredited)
Harry Depp as Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Douglas Evans as Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Joe Devlin as Waiter (uncredited)
John Dilson as Secretary (uncredited)
Lester Dorr as Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Robert Dudley as Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Earle as Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Egan as Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Gladys Gale as Committeewoman (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Woman (uncredited)
June Gittelson as Woman at Station (uncredited)
Lorna Gray as Woman at Station (uncredited)
Harry Hayden as First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt as Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
John Ince as Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
Philo McCullough as Senator Albert (uncredited)
Henry Hebert as Senator (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten as Butler (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham as Committeeman (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham as (uncredited)
Eddie Kane as Reporter (uncredited)
Donald Kerr as Reporter (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Joe King as Summers (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp as Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Kruger as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Bobby Larson as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Vera Lewis as Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist as Chorus Member (uncredited)
George Lloyd as Hoodlum (uncredited)
Arthur Loft as Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren as Head Sister (uncredited)
Hank Mann as Photographer (uncredited)
Margaret Mann as Nun (uncredited)
Eric Mayne as Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
George McKay as Reporter (uncredited)
Lafe McKee as Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Ben Taggart as Pompous Man (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas as Pompous Man (uncredited)
Sammy McKim as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
William Newell as Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Middlemass as Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
James Millican as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell as Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore as Porter (uncredited)
Gene Morgan as Reporter (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor as Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Jack Rice as Lang (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing as Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor as Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Jack Richardson as Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Walter Soderling as Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Victor Travis as Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale as Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Bob Walker as Senator Holland (uncredited)
Craig Stevens as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Stanton as Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Johnny Russell as Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Walter Sande as Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas as Hendricks (uncredited)
Harry Strang as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Dave Willock as Senate Guard (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock as Schultz (uncredited)
John Tyrrell as (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom as Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr. as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Billy Wayne as Reporter (uncredited)
John Ward as Photographer (uncredited)
Blanche Payson as Committeewoman (uncredited)
Florence Wix as Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jesse Graves as Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Larry Steers as Committeeman (uncredited)
Landers Stevens as Committeeman (uncredited)
William Worthington as Committeeman (uncredited)
Frank McLure as Senator (uncredited)