01 A mysterious gunfighter tries to leave violence behind by helping a family of homesteaders under threat.
6 Best Jean Arthur Movies
By Vlad Zakh · January 20, 2026
Jean Arthur’s warm, husky voice and unerring comic timing made her one of the defining leading ladies of 1930s and ’40s screwball comedy. In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): An idealistic new senator’s cynical secretary helps him fight political corruption in Washington. Don’t overlook You Can’t Take It with You (1938): A young woman’s eccentric, free-spirited family clashes with her fiancé’s stiff, wealthy relatives.
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02 An American congresswoman investigates fraternization between occupying soldiers and locals in postwar Berlin.
03 A wartime housing shortage forces a woman to share her apartment with two mismatched strangers.
04 An idealistic new senator's cynical secretary helps him fight political corruption in Washington.
05 A young woman's eccentric, free-spirited family clashes with her fiancé's stiff, wealthy relatives.
06 A small-town poet who inherits a vast fortune clashes with the greedy city sophisticates trying to exploit him.
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