Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Release: 1939-10-19
·Runtime: 130m
·★ 7.8
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Jean Arthur
as Clarissa Saunders
Frank Austin
as Inventor (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
as Pompous Man (uncredited)
James Millican
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Ann Doran
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Joe King
as Summers (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
as Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
as Reporter (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
William Demarest
as Bill Griffith
Robert Sterling
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
as Butler (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Hank Mann
as Photographer (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
as Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Delmar Watson
as Jimmie Hopper
Jack Egan
as Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
as Reporter (uncredited)
Craig Stevens
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Dave Willock
as Senate Guard (uncredited)
Charles Lane
as Nosey
Gino Corrado
as Barber (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
as Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
John Ince
as Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
William Worthington
as Committeeman (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
as First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
as Richard Jones (uncredited)
Jack Carson
as Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
Davison Clark
as Committeeman (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
as Woman at Station (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
as Reporter (uncredited)
Guy Kibbee
as Governor Hopper
Lynton Brent
as Photographer (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
as Diggs (uncredited)
Harry Depp
as Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Victor Travis
as Senator Grainger (uncredited)
James Stewart
as Jefferson Smith
H.B. Warner
as Senate Majority Leader
Dorothy Comingore
as Woman at Station (uncredited)
John Ward
as Photographer (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
as Committeewoman (uncredited)
Astrid Allwyn
as Susan Paine
Ben Taggart
as Pompous Man (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
as Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Rice
as Lang (uncredited)
Walter Sande
as Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom
as Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Beulah Bondi
as Ma Smith
Harry C. Bradley
as Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Larry Simms
as Hopper Boy
Al Bridge
as Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
as Family Man (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
as Senator Albert (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
as Nun (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
as Reporter (uncredited)
George McKay
as Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Strang
as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
as Committeeman (uncredited)
Harry Carey
as President of the Senate
Grant Mitchell
as Senator MacPherson
Mary Gordon
as Woman (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
as Head Sister (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter
as Announcer (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
as Senator (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham
as (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
as Reporter (uncredited)
Jesse Graves
as Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Ruth Donnelly
as Emma Hopper
Joe Devlin
as Waiter (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
as Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Gladys Gale
as Committeewoman (uncredited)
George Lloyd
as Hoodlum (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
as Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Claude Rains
as Joseph Paine
Russell Simpson
as Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
as Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
as Porter (uncredited)
Thomas Mitchell
as Diz Moore
Eugene Pallette
as Chick McGann
Stanley Andrews
as Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Dub Taylor
as Reporter (uncredited)
William Newell
as Reporter (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
as Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
as Senator Gower (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
as Reporter (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
as Carl Cook
Frances Gifford
as Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
as Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
as Reporter (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
as Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Earle
as Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
as Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
as Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Sam Ash
as Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Jack Cooper
as Photographer (uncredited)
John Dilson
as Secretary (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic
as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
as Senator Barnes
Paul Kruger
as Bodyguard (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
as Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Bob Walker
as Senator Holland (uncredited)
Johnny Russell
as Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
as Porter (uncredited)
Porter Hall
as Senator Monroe
Edwin August
as Senator (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
as Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Robert Middlemass
as Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
as (uncredited)
Dora Clement
as Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
as Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist
as Chorus Member (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
as Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Frank McLure
as Senator (uncredited)
George Chandler
as Reporter (uncredited)
June Gittelson
as Woman at Station (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
as Schultz (uncredited)
Edward Arnold
as Jim Taylor
Vera Lewis
as Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Sammy McKim
as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
as Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
as Hendricks (uncredited)
Florence Wix
as Committeewoman (uncredited)
George Cooper
as Waiter (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
as Reporter (uncredited)
John Russell
as Hopper Boy
Robert Emmett Keane
as Editor (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Alec Craig
as Speaker (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
as Committeeman (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
as Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr.
as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Larry Steers
as Committeeman (uncredited)