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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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.
Frank Capra
Casts & Crew
Jean Arthur
James Stewart
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
Robert 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
Also Directed by Frank Capra
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Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
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