Jean Arthur — Actor (21)
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Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus …
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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The Saturday Night Kid (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Saturday Night Kid
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: Clara Bow / Jean Arthur …
other title: Lui, lei, l'altra / La chica de la noche del sábado
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
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Adventure in Manhattan (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Adventure in Manhattan
director: Edward Ludwig actor: Jean Arthur / Joel McCrea …
other title: Antes de medianoche / Aventure à Manhattan
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Devil and Miss Jones
director: Sam Wood actor: Charles Coburn / Jean Arthur …
other title: Il diavolo si converte / O Diabo e a Mulher …
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whole Town's Talking
director: John Ford actor: Edward G. Robinson / Jean Arthur …
other title: Tutta la città ne parla / Stadtgespräch …
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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The Talk of the Town (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Talk of the Town
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Jean Arthur …
other title: Un evaso ha bussato alla porta / Zeuge der Anklage …
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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If You Could Only Cook (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
If You Could Only Cook
director: William A. Seiter actor: Herbert Marshall / Jean Arthur …
other title: Wenn sie nur kochen könnte / Búsquenme una novia …
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Monks a la mode (1923) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Monks a la mode
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Sidney Smith / Jean Arthur
Dress shop owner Madame Maxine employs two chimps to serve in her establishment. It goes about as well as you would expect!
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The More the Merrier (1943) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The More the Merrier
director: George Stevens actor: Jean Arthur / Joel McCrea …
other title: Molta brigata vita beata / Immer mehr, immer fröhlicher …
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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The Canary Murder Case (1929) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Canary Murder Case
director: Malcolm St. Clair / Frank Tuttle actor: William Powell / James Hall …
other title: La canarina assassinata / Die Stimme aus dem Jenseits …
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
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The Iron Horse (1925) [Movie] TMDB
The Iron Horse
director: John Ford actor: George O'Brien / Madge Bellamy …
other title: Il cavallo d'acciaio / O Cavalo de Ferro …
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
You Can't Take It with You
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Arthur / James Stewart …
other title: L'eterna illusione / Não o Levarás Contigo …
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Jean Arthur …
other title: È arrivata la felicità / En gentleman kommer til byen …
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Shane (1953) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Shane
director: George Stevens actor: Alan Ladd / Jean Arthur …
other title: Il cavaliere della valle solitaria / Shane, den tavse rytter …
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.