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