About Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Released on October 19, 1939
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
Full Cast of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
James Stewart plays Jefferson Smith
Jean Arthur plays Clarissa Saunders
Claude Rains plays Joseph Paine
Edward Arnold plays Jim Taylor
Guy Kibbee plays Governor Hopper
Thomas Mitchell plays Diz Moore
Eugene Pallette plays Chick McGann
Beulah Bondi plays Ma Smith
H.B. Warner plays Senate Majority Leader
Harry Carey plays President of the Senate
Astrid Allwyn plays Susan Paine
Ruth Donnelly plays Emma Hopper
Grant Mitchell plays Senator MacPherson
Porter Hall plays Senator Monroe
Pierre Watkin plays Senator Barnes
Charles Lane plays Nosey
William Demarest plays Bill Griffith
Dick Elliott plays Carl Cook
Billy Watson plays Peter Hopper
Delmar Watson plays Jimmie Hopper
John Russell plays Hopper Boy
Harry Watson plays Hopper Boy
Garry Watson plays Hopper Boy
Larry Simms plays Hopper Boy
H.V. Kaltenborn plays Radio Broadcaster
Russell Simpson plays Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Frances Gifford plays Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Colin James Mackey plays Narrator (uncredited)
Wilson Benge plays Hopper's Butler (uncredited)
Dickie Jones plays Richard Jones (uncredited)
Erville Alderson plays Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Frank Puglia plays Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Maurice Cass plays Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews plays Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Al Bridge plays Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Edwin August plays Senator (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb plays Senator Gower (uncredited)
Sam Ash plays Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey plays Senator Hammett (uncredited)
Stanley Mack plays Senator (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict plays Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Wade Boteler plays Family Man (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore plays Woman at Station (uncredited)
Chester Conklin plays Reporter (uncredited)
Gino Corrado plays Barber (uncredited)
Ann Doran plays Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane plays Editor (uncredited)
Matt McHugh plays Reporter (uncredited)
Kathryn Bates plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Frank Austin plays Inventor (uncredited)
William Arnold plays Reporter (uncredited)
Tommy Baker plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Robert Sterling plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Dub Taylor plays Reporter (uncredited)
George Chandler plays Reporter (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones plays Porter (uncredited)
Jack Carson plays Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp plays Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Dora Clement plays Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse plays Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley plays Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Lynton Brent plays Photographer (uncredited)
Ed Brewer plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs plays Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Frederick Burton plays Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)
Georgia Caine plays Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter plays Announcer (uncredited)
Burr Caruth plays Townsend (uncredited)
Allan Cavan plays Ragner (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler plays Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark plays Committeeman (uncredited)
Richard Clucas plays (uncredited)
Shirley Coates plays Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Eddie Coke plays Photographer (uncredited)
Hal Cooke plays Reporter (uncredited)
Alec Craig plays Speaker (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
George Cooper plays Waiter (uncredited)
Georgie Cooper plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jack Cooper plays Photographer (uncredited)
Nick Copeland plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Vernon Dent plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Maurice Costello plays Diggs (uncredited)
Beatrice Curtis plays Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Lew Davis plays Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Dulcie Day plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Wally Dean plays Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Harry Depp plays Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Byron Foulger plays Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy plays Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Douglas Evans plays Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Joe Devlin plays Waiter (uncredited)
Clyde Dilson plays Reporter (uncredited)
John Dilson plays Secretary (uncredited)
Neal Dodd plays Senate Chaplain (uncredited)
Lester Dorr plays Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Robert Dudley plays Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Earle plays Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Egan plays Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Gladys Gale plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jack Gardner plays Reporter (uncredited)
Mary Gordon plays Woman (uncredited)
June Gittelson plays Woman at Station (uncredited)
Lorna Gray plays Woman at Station (uncredited)
Harry Hayden plays First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt plays Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
John Ince plays Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet plays Senator Byron (uncredited)
Philo McCullough plays Senator Albert (uncredited)
Wright Kramer plays Senator Carlton (uncredited)
Henry Hebert plays Senator (uncredited)
Fred Hoose plays Senator (uncredited)
Richard Kipling plays Senator (uncredited)
Roger Haliday plays Senate Guard (uncredited)
Wilfred Hari plays House Boy (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten plays Butler (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham plays Committeeman (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham plays (uncredited)
Dick Jensen plays Hoodlum (uncredited)
John Lester Johnson plays Butler (uncredited)
Eddie Kane plays Reporter (uncredited)
Donald Kerr plays Reporter (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Joe King plays Summers (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp plays Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Kruger plays Bodyguard (uncredited)
Bobby Larson plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Billy Lechner plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Jackie Lowe plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
P.H. Levy plays Rabbi (uncredited)
Vera Lewis plays Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist plays Chorus Member (uncredited)
George Lloyd plays Hoodlum (uncredited)
Arthur Loft plays Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Jack Low plays Hoodlum (uncredited)
Jimmie Lucas plays Photographer (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren plays Head Sister (uncredited)
Hank Mann plays Photographer (uncredited)
Margaret Mann plays Nun (uncredited)
Eric Mayne plays Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Ralph McCullough plays Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
George McKay plays Reporter (uncredited)
Lafe McKee plays Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Ben Taggart plays Pompous Man (uncredited)
Field Norton plays Pompous Man (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas plays Pompous Man (uncredited)
Sammy McKim plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
James McNamara plays Reporter (uncredited)
William Newell plays Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Middlemass plays Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
James Millican plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell plays Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore plays Porter (uncredited)
Gene Morgan plays Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Morgan plays Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Ray Nichols plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Alex Novinsky plays Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor plays Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Frank Otto plays Fisk (uncredited)
Joe Palma plays Hoodlum (uncredited)
Spencer Quinn plays (uncredited)
Tom Quinn plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Ed Randolph plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Charles Regan plays Hoodlum (uncredited)
Jack Rice plays Lang (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing plays Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor plays Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Jack Richardson plays Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Walter Soderling plays Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Harry Stafford plays Senator Atwater (uncredited)
Victor Travis plays Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale plays Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Bob Walker plays Senator Holland (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore plays Senator (uncredited)
Craig Stevens plays Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Stanton plays Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Johnny Russell plays Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Walter Sande plays Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas plays Hendricks (uncredited)
Harry Strang plays Bodyguard (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook plays Bodyguard (uncredited)
Dave Willock plays Senate Guard (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock plays Schultz (uncredited)
John Tyrrell plays (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom plays Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan plays Cab Driver (uncredited)
Arthur Thalasso plays Doorman (uncredited)
Edward Thomas plays Butler (uncredited)
Laura Treadwell plays Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr. plays Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Myonne Walsh plays Jane Hopper (uncredited)
Billy Wayne plays Reporter (uncredited)
Max Waizmann plays Photographer (uncredited)
John Ward plays Photographer (uncredited)
Jane Loofbourrow plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Blanche Payson plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Emma Tansey plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Bess Wade plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Florence Wix plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Eleanor Wood plays Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jesse Graves plays Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Gus Glassmire plays Angry Committee Member (uncredited)
Larry Steers plays Committeeman (uncredited)
Landers Stevens plays Committeeman (uncredited)
William Worthington plays Committeeman (uncredited)
Edward Biby plays Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli plays Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
David Wade plays (uncredited)
Frank McLure plays Senator (uncredited)
Crew of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Directing
Sound
Camera
Editing
Writing
Art
Costume & Make-Up
Visual Effects
- James Stewart
- Jean Arthur
- Claude Rains
- Edward Arnold
- Guy Kibbee
- Thomas Mitchell
- Eugene Pallette
- Beulah Bondi
- H.B. Warner
- Harry Carey
- Astrid Allwyn
- Ruth Donnelly
- Grant Mitchell
- Porter Hall
- Pierre Watkin
- Charles Lane
- William Demarest
- Dick Elliott
- Billy Watson
- Delmar Watson
- John Russell
- Harry Watson
- Garry Watson
- Larry Simms
- H.V. Kaltenborn
- Russell Simpson
- Frances Gifford
- Colin James Mackey
- Wilson Benge
- Dickie Jones
- Erville Alderson
- Frank Puglia
- Maurice Cass
- Stanley Andrews
- Al Bridge
- Edwin August
- Edmund Cobb
- Sam Ash
- Harry A. Bailey
- Stanley Mack
- Brooks Benedict
- Wade Boteler
- Dorothy Comingore
- Chester Conklin
- Gino Corrado
- Ann Doran
- Robert Emmett Keane
- Matt McHugh
- Kathryn Bates
- Frank Austin
- William Arnold
- Tommy Baker
- Robert Sterling
- Dub Taylor
- George Chandler
- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Jack Carson
- Tommy Bupp
- Dora Clement
- Bert Moorhouse
- Harry C. Bradley
- Lynton Brent
- Ed Brewer
- Harlan Briggs
- Harry Burkhardt
- Frederick Burton
- Georgia Caine
- Ken Carpenter
- Burr Caruth
- Allan Cavan
- Eddy Chandler
- Davison Clark
- Richard Clucas
- Shirley Coates
- Eddie Coke
- Hal Cooke
- Alec Craig
- Anne Cornwall
- George Cooper
- Georgie Cooper
- Jack Cooper
- Nick Copeland
- Vernon Dent
- Maurice Costello
- Beatrice Curtis
- Lew Davis
- Dulcie Day
- Wally Dean
- Harry Depp
- Byron Foulger
- Helen Jerome Eddy
- Douglas Evans
- Joe Devlin
- Clyde Dilson
- John Dilson
- Neal Dodd
- Lester Dorr
- Robert Dudley
- Edward Earle
- Jack Egan
- Eddie Fetherston
- Mabel Forrest
- Gladys Gale
- Jack Gardner
- Mary Gordon
- June Gittelson
- Lorna Gray
- Harry Hayden
- Louis Jean Heydt
- John Ince
- Frank Jaquet
- Philo McCullough
- Wright Kramer
- Henry Hebert
- Fred Hoose
- Richard Kipling
- Roger Haliday
- Wilfred Hari
- Philip Hurlic
- Olaf Hytten
- Lloyd Ingraham
- Mitchell Ingraham
- Dick Jensen
- John Lester Johnson
- Eddie Kane
- Donald Kerr
- Milton Kibbee
- Joe King
- Evalyn Knapp
- Paul Kruger
- Bobby Larson
- Billy Lechner
- Jackie Lowe
- P.H. Levy
- Vera Lewis
- Jack Lindquist
- George Lloyd
- Arthur Loft
- Jack Low
- Jimmie Lucas
- Mary MacLaren
- Hank Mann
- Margaret Mann
- Eric Mayne
- Ralph McCullough
- George McKay
- Lafe McKee
- Ben Taggart
- Field Norton
- Wilfred Lucas
- Sammy McKim
- James McNamara
- William Newell
- Robert Middlemass
- James Millican
- Howard M. Mitchell
- Charles R. Moore
- Gene Morgan
- Robert Morgan
- Ray Nichols
- Alex Novinsky
- Frank O'Connor
- Frank Otto
- Joe Palma
- Spencer Quinn
- Tom Quinn
- Ed Randolph
- Charles Regan
- Jack Rice
- Wyndham Standing
- Ferris Taylor
- Jack Richardson
- Walter Soderling
- Harry Stafford
- Victor Travis
- Carl Stockdale
- Bob Walker
- Henry Roquemore
- Craig Stevens
- Paul Stanton
- Johnny Russell
- Walter Sande
- Frank M. Thomas
- Harry Strang
- Harry Tenbrook
- Dave Willock
- Lloyd Whitlock
- John Tyrrell
- Frederick Vroom
- Charles Sullivan
- Arthur Thalasso
- Edward Thomas
- Laura Treadwell
- Layne Tom Jr.
- Myonne Walsh
- Billy Wayne
- Max Waizmann
- John Ward
- Jane Loofbourrow
- Blanche Payson
- Emma Tansey
- Bess Wade
- Florence Wix
- Eleanor Wood
- Jesse Graves
- Gus Glassmire
- Larry Steers
- Landers Stevens
- William Worthington
- Edward Biby
- Count Stefenelli
- David Wade
- Frank McLure