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Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in The Silver Horde (1930)
Ashes scattered off of Point Lobos, California, USA.
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Jean Arthur, Eric Linden, and Ivan F. Simpson in The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
Wore her natural brunette hair color throughout the silent film portion of her career, then began bleaching her hair blonde shortly after she started making talkies.
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Jean Arthur and Jack Oakie in The Gang Buster (1931)
Department of Strange Coincidences: Jean Arthur's former spouse, producer Frank Ross, next married the actress Joan Caulfield. On the very day following Caulfield's death on 18 June 1991, Arthur died.
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Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Young Eagles (1930)
After retiring from films she taught drama at Vassar and North Carolina School of the Arts from the late 1960s to 1973.
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Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Young Eagles (1930)
Was a leading contender for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Jean Arthur in Immer mehr, immer fröhlicher (1943)
As her star began to decline, she was replaced by Rita Hayworth as Columbia Pictures' top female star. Coincidentally, the two stars share the same birthday (October 17).
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Jean Arthur, Douglas Haig, Emil Jannings, Jack Luden, etc.
Turned down the role of the lady missionary in Lost Horizon (1973), the unsuccessful musical remake of the 1937 classic of the same name.
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Jean Arthur, George K. Arthur, and Karl Dane in Brotherly Love (1928)
On the completion of her Columbia contract in 1944, she reportedly ran through the studio's streets, shouting "I'm free, I'm free!".
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Jean Arthur, George K. Arthur, and Karl Dane in Brotherly Love (1928)
Allegedly took her stage name from two of her greatest heroes: Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) and King Arthur.
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Jean Arthur and Cesar Romero in Diamanten-Jim (1935)
Quit movies at the height of her career in 1944, following an Oscar nomination and while still Columbia Pictures' top female box-office attraction. She appeared in only two more films, for Oscar-winning directors Billy Wilder (A Foreign Affair (1948)) and George Stevens (Shane (1953)). According to John Oller's biography "Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew" (1997), Arthur was a shy person who came to loathe making movies, having developed a kind of stage fright (something not uncommon in even great and accomplished actors; Laurence Olivier said he developed stage fright in 1964, while playing in "Othello," after 40 years on stage) that made acting in movies agony for her. After she quit movies, she tried to make a go at a stage career, being part of the original cast of "Born Yesterday," but she dropped out during previews and was replaced by Judy Holliday. She later gave television a crack in the mid-'60s, but the The Jean Arthur Show (1966) was canceled after half a season.
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Jean Arthur, Noble Johnson, Warner Oland, etc.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 29-31. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
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Jean Arthur, Clive Brook, and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
Gary Cooper was her favorite leading man.
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Jean Arthur and Clive Brook in The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
Even though Jean and James Stewart never bonded off-screen, Jimmy called Jean "the finest actress I ever worked with. No one had her humor, her timing".
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Jean Arthur, Lloyd Bridges, and Edgar Buchanan in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
She was teaching at Vassar at the same time that Meryl Streep was studying there in her junior year. Upon seeing the young drama major rehearsing August Strindberg's play "Miss Julie", Arthur remarked it was "just like watching a movie star".
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Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
Turned down Donna Reed's role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) because she didn't want to work with James Stewart again.
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Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
Profiled in book, "Funny Ladies", by Stephen M. Silverman. [1999]
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Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
Arthur's family regarded the Washington Heights Section of Manhattan as home.
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Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
Appeared in three Frank Capra movies: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
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Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
Like other well known actresses, most notably Claudette Colbert, Arthur was most frequently photographed from the left side, cinematographers having determined that this was her most favorable angle. As evidence of this fact, just take a look at Arizona (1940).
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Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Iron Horse (1924), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and Shane (1953).
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Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
WAMPAS Baby Star of 1929.
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Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman in Zeuge der Anklage (1942)
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Jean Arthur, Jean Harlow, Clara Bow, Irving Bacon, Eddie Dunn, James Hall, etc.
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Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, and Louis Wolheim in Danger Lights (1930)
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Jean Arthur, Gertrude Astor, Nora Cecil, Ethel Clayton, Dora Clement, Lois Clinton, etc.
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