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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Calorie Rating: 181
Released: 1939-10-19
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Budget: 1500000
Revenue 9600000
Studios: Columbia Pictures,


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.

Director / Directors

Frank Capra
Director
Arthur S. Black Jr.
Assistant Director


Cast

James Stewart
Character: Jefferson Smith
Jean Arthur
Character: Clarissa Saunders
Claude Rains
Character: Joseph Paine

Edward Arnold
Character: Jim Taylor
Guy Kibbee
Character: Governor Hopper
Thomas Mitchell
Character: Diz Moore

Eugene Pallette
Character: Chick McGann
Beulah Bondi
Character: Ma Smith
H.B. Warner
Character: Senate Majority Leader

Harry Carey
Character: President of the Senate
Astrid Allwyn
Character: Susan Paine
Ruth Donnelly
Character: Emma Hopper

Grant Mitchell
Character: Senator MacPherson
Porter Hall
Character: Senator Monroe
Pierre Watkin
Character: Senator Barnes

Charles Lane
Character: Nosey
William Demarest
Character: Bill Griffith
Dick Elliott
Character: Carl Cook

Billy Watson
Character: Peter Hopper
Delmar Watson
Character: Jimmie Hopper
John Russell
Character: Hopper Boy

Harry Watson
Character: Hopper Boy
Garry Watson
Character: Hopper Boy
Larry Simms
Character: Hopper Boy

H.V. Kaltenborn
Character: Radio Broadcaster
Russell Simpson
Character: Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Frances Gifford
Character: Hopper Girl (uncredited)

Colin James Mackey
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
Character: Hopper's Butler (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
Character: Richard Jones (uncredited)

Erville Alderson
Character: Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Character: Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
Character: Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Stanley Andrews
Character: Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Character: Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Edwin August
Character: Senator (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb
Character: Senator Gower (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Character: Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Character: Senator Hammett (uncredited)

Stanley Mack
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Character: Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Character: Family Man (uncredited)

Dorothy Comingore
Character: Woman at Station (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Character: Barber (uncredited)

Ann Doran
Character: Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
Character: Editor (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Kathryn Bates
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Frank Austin
Character: Inventor (uncredited)
William Arnold
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Tommy Baker
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Dub Taylor
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

George Chandler
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Jack Carson
Character: Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)

Tommy Bupp
Character: Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Character: Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Character: Man in Senate Building (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Character: Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Ed Brewer
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Harlan Briggs
Character: Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Frederick Burton
Character: Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)

Georgia Caine
Character: Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
Burr Caruth
Character: Townsend (uncredited)

Allan Cavan
Character: Ragner (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)

Richard Clucas
Character: (uncredited)
Shirley Coates
Character: Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Character: Photographer (uncredited)

Hal Cooke
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Alec Craig
Character: Speaker (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)

George Cooper
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Georgie Cooper
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jack Cooper
Character: Photographer (uncredited)

Nick Copeland
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
Character: Diggs (uncredited)

Beatrice Curtis
Character: Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Lew Davis
Character: Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Dulcie Day
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Wally Dean
Character: Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Character: Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Character: Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)

Helen Jerome Eddy
Character: Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
Character: Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Character: Waiter (uncredited)

Clyde Dilson
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
John Dilson
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Neal Dodd
Character: Senate Chaplain (uncredited)

Lester Dorr
Character: Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Jack Egan
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Gladys Gale
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Character: Woman (uncredited)

June Gittelson
Character: Woman at Station (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
Character: Woman at Station (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Character: First Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Louis Jean Heydt
Character: Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
John Ince
Character: Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Character: Senator Byron (uncredited)

Philo McCullough
Character: Senator Albert (uncredited)
Wright Kramer
Character: Senator Carlton (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Character: Senator (uncredited)

Fred Hoose
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Roger Haliday
Character: Senate Guard (uncredited)

Wilfred Hari
Character: House Boy (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Character: Butler (uncredited)

Lloyd Ingraham
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham
Character: (uncredited)
Dick Jensen
Character: Hoodlum (uncredited)

John Lester Johnson
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Joe King
Character: Summers (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Paul Kruger
Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Billy Lechner
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Jackie Lowe
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
P.H. Levy
Character: Rabbi (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
Character: Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)

Jack Lindquist
Character: Chorus Member (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Character: Hoodlum (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Character: Chief Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Low
Character: Hoodlum (uncredited)
Jimmie Lucas
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
Character: Head Sister (uncredited)

Hank Mann
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Character: Man in Senate Building (uncredited)

Ralph McCullough
Character: Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
George McKay
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
Character: Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)

Ben Taggart
Character: Pompous Man (uncredited)
Field Norton
Character: Pompous Man (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Character: Pompous Man (uncredited)

Sammy McKim
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
James McNamara
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
William Newell
Character: Reporter (uncredited)

Robert Middlemass
Character: Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
James Millican
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Character: Shoe Salesman (uncredited)

Charles R. Moore
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Morgan
Character: Senate Clerk (uncredited)

Ray Nichols
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Alex Novinsky
Character: Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Character: Senator Alfred (uncredited)

Frank Otto
Character: Fisk (uncredited)
Joe Palma
Character: Hoodlum (uncredited)
Spencer Quinn
Character: (uncredited)

Tom Quinn
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Ed Randolph
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Charles Regan
Character: Hoodlum (uncredited)

Jack Rice
Character: Lang (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
Character: Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
Character: Senator Carlisle (uncredited)

Jack Richardson
Character: Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Character: Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Harry Stafford
Character: Senator Atwater (uncredited)

Victor Travis
Character: Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Character: Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Bob Walker
Character: Senator Holland (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Craig Stevens
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Character: Flood a Newsman (uncredited)

Johnny Russell
Character: Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Character: Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
Character: Hendricks (uncredited)

Harry Strang
Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Dave Willock
Character: Senate Guard (uncredited)

Lloyd Whitlock
Character: Schultz (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Character: (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom
Character: Paine's Friend (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Arthur Thalasso
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Edward Thomas
Character: Butler (uncredited)

Laura Treadwell
Character: Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr.
Character: Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Myonne Walsh
Character: Jane Hopper (uncredited)

Billy Wayne
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Max Waizmann
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
John Ward
Character: Photographer (uncredited)

Jane Loofbourrow
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)

Bess Wade
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Eleanor Wood
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)

Jesse Graves
Character: Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Gus Glassmire
Character: Angry Committee Member (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)

Landers Stevens
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
William Worthington
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Character: Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)

Count Stefenelli
Character: Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
David Wade
Character: (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Character: Senator (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Sidney Buchman
Screenplay
Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music Composer

Lionel Banks
Art Direction
Joseph Walker
Director of Photography

Al Clark
Editor
Slavko Vorkapich
Visual Effects
Morris Stoloff
Music Director

Robert Kalloch
Costume Design