Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. When Frank Capra decided to film the novel THE GENTLEMAN FROM MONTANA, he ran into an obstacle Director Rouben Mamoulian owned the rights to the story. Unwilling to sell, Mamoulian eventually traded the material to Columbia on the condition that he be allowed to direct Golden Boy. As Capra began working on the film, now called MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, it was suggested that Gary Copper, the star of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, take the lead. Capra selected Jimmy Stewart instead and the film solidified Stewart's movie career, garnering him his first Academy Award nomination. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Motion Picture Story), MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra's, Stewart's and Columbia's finest films. It also marked the end of an era. It was Capra's final film for the studio.

Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Actor: Jean Arthur
Actor: James Stewart
Actor: Claude Rains
Actor: Edward Arnold
Actor: Guy Kibbee
Actor: Thomas Mitchell
Actor: Eugene Pallette
Actor: Beulah Bondi
Actor: Harry Carey
Actor: H.B. Warner
Actor: H. B. Warner
Actor: Astrid Allwyn
Actor: Ruth Donnelly
Actor: Grant Mitchell
Actor: Porter Hall
Actor: Pierre Watkin
Actor: Charles Lane
Actor: William Demarest
Actor: Dick Elliott
Actor: Billy Watson
Actor: Delmar Watson
Actor: John Russell
Actor: Harry Watson
Actor: Gary Watson
Actor: Baby Dumpling
Actor: H. V. Kaltenborn
Actor: Ken Carpenter
Actor: Jack Carson
Actor: Joe King
Actor: Paul Stanton
Actor: Russell Simpson
Actor: Stanley Andrews
Actor: Walter Soderling
Actor: Frank Jaquet
Actor: Ferris Taylor
Actor: Carl Stockdale
Actor: Wright Kramer
Actor: Al Bridge
Actor: Edmund Cobb
Actor: Arthur Loft
Actor: Frederick Burton
Actor: Harry Bailey
Actor: Wyndham Standing
Actor: Robert Walker
Actor: Victor Travers
Actor: John Ince
Actor: Sam Ash
Actor: Ed Mortimer
Actor: Philo McCullough
Actor: Frank O'Connor
Actor: Harry Stafford
Actor: Jack Richardson
Actor: Vera Lewis
Actor: Dora Clement
Actor: Laura Treadwell
Actor: Helen Jerome Eddy
Actor: Ann Doran
Actor: Beatrice Curtis
Actor: Byron Foulger
Actor: Frank Otto
Actor: Jack Rice
Actor: Eddie Fetherston
Actor: Ed Randolph
Actor: Milt Kibbee
Actor: Vernon Dent
Actor: Michael Gale
Actor: Anne Cornwall
Actor: James Millican
Actor: Mabel Forrest
Actor: Nick Copeland
Actor: Dulce Daye
Actor: Clyde Dilson
Actor: William Newell
Actor: George Chandler
Actor: Gene Morgan
Actor: George McKay
Actor: Matt McHugh
Actor: Evalyn Knapp
Actor: Dub Taylor
Actor: Jack Gardner
Actor: Donald Kerr
Actor: Eddie Kane
Actor: William Arnold
Actor: Hal Cooke
Actor: James McNamara
Actor: Jack Egan
Actor: Eddy Chandler
Actor: Dick Fiske
Actor: Billy Wayne
Actor: Phan H. Levy
Actor: Frederick Hoose
Actor: Count Stefenelli
Actor: Alex Novinsky
Actor: Burr Caruth
Actor: Frank Austin
Actor: Allan Cavan
Actor: Maurice Costello
Actor: Lloyd Whitlock
Actor: Frank Puglia
Actor: Erville Alderson
Actor: Maurice Cass
Actor: Harry Bradley
Actor: Lou Davis
Actor: Brooks Benedict
Actor: Robert Morgan
Actor: Rev. Neal Dodd
Actor: Robert Middlemass
Actor: Alec Craig
Actor: Harry Hayden
Actor: Georgia Caine
Actor: Frank M. Thomas
Actor: Louis Jean Heydt
Actor: Wade Boteler
Actor: George Lloyd
Actor: Joe Palma
Actor: Harry Anderson
Actor: Charles Regan
Actor: Jack Low
Actor: Robert Emmett Keane
Actor: Mary MacLaren
Actor: Olaf Hytten
Actor: Wilson Benge
Actor: John Lester Johnson
Actor: Ed Thomas
Actor: Davison Clark
Actor: Landers Stevens
Actor: William Worthington
Actor: Lloyd Ingraham
Actor: Larry Steers
Actor: Jesse Graves
Actor: Georgia Cooper
Actor: Kathryn Bates
Actor: Florence Wix
Actor: Gladys Gale
Actor: Blanche Payson
Actor: Jane K. Loofbourrow
Actor: Catherine Courtney
Actor: Bessie Wade
Actor: Emma Tansey
Actor: Eleanor Wood
Actor: Hank Mann
Actor: Jack Cooper
Actor: Eddie Coke
Actor: Lynton Brent
Actor: Max Waizman
Actor: John Ward
Actor: James Lucas
Actor: Joe Devlin
Actor: George Cooper
Actor: Eddie Brewer
Actor: Ralph McCullough
Actor: Hugh Brundage
Actor: Dave Willock
Actor: Roger Haliday
Actor: Myonno Walsh
Actor: Wilfred Hari
Actor: Snowflake
Actor: Charles Moore
Actor: Charles Sullivan
Actor: Arthur Thalasso
Actor: Wally Dean
Actor: Anita Young
Actor: Frederick Vroom
Actor: Margaret Mann
Actor: Howard Mitchell
Actor: Harry Depp
Actor: Gino Corrado
Actor: Ben Taggart
Actor: Field Norton
Actor: Wilfred Lucas
Actor: Lafe McKee
Actor: Dickie Jones
Actor: Layne Tom Jr.
Actor: Ray Nichols
Actor: Sammy McKim
Actor: Phillip Hurlic
Actor: Frank Bellan
Actor: Billy Lechner
Actor: Jackie Lowe
Actor: Tommy Baker
Actor: Douglas Evans
Actor: Walter Sande
Actor: Harlan Briggs
Actor: John Dilson
Actor: Gayle Morris
Actor: Frances Gifford
Actor: Lorna Gray
Actor: Linda Winters
Actor: June Gittelson
Actor: Mary Gordon
Actor: Shirley Coates
Actor: Frank Hammond
Actor: Frank Arthur Swales
Actor: Constance Bergen
Actor: Beryl Wallace
Actor: Dorothy Short
Actor: Dorothy Dugan
Actor: Franz English
Actor: Henry Roquemore
Actor: Lester Dorr
Actor: Tommy Bupp
Actor: Hershel McMullin
Actor: Bobby Larson
Actor: Isabelle La Mal
Actor: Betty Roadman
Actor: Mary Currier
Actor: Jean Fowler
Actor: Arthur Stuart Hull
Actor: Phil Dunham
Actor: Broderick O'Farrell
Actor: Howard Chase
Actor: J. C. Fowler
Actor: Edward Earle
Actor: Robert Dudley
Actor: Gus Glassmire
Actor: Brandon Beach
Actor: Tom Curran
Actor: Mitchell Ingraham
Actor: Clark Morgan