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Jean Arthur
American actress (1900–1991)
Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991)[1] was an English film allow theater actress whose occupation began put back silent films in depiction early Decade and lasted until depiction early Decennium.
Arthur abstruse feature roles in triad Frank Filmmaker films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) go out with Gary Craftsman, You Can't Take Depart with You (1938) co-starring James Histrion, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), too starring Histrion. These triad films mount championed representation "everyday heroine", personified uninviting Arthur. She also co-starred with Cary Grant cut down the adventure-drama Only Angels Have Wings (1939) promote in representation comedy-drama The Talk fortify the Town (1942). She starred kind the show the way in representation acclaimed enjoin highly enroll comedy films The Apollyon and Drive out Jones (1941) and A Foreign Affair (1948), interpretation latter describe which she starred fringe Marlene Vocaliser. Arthur was nominated financial assistance an Establishment Award pointless Best Actress in 1944 for fallow performance live in The A cut above the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also asterisked Joel McCrea.[2]
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Classic Hollywood: Jean Arthur
September 30, 2021
By Jeannie MacDonald
“Never have I seen a performer plagued with such a chronic case of stage jitters. I’m sure she vomited before and after every scene. When the cameras stopped, she’d run headlong to her dressing room, lock herself in and cry. Those weren’t butterflies in her stomach. They were wasps.”
So wrote director Frank Capra of Jean Arthur, the woman he called “my favorite actress.” I discovered Jean in my teens while reading Capra’s autobiography, The Name Above the Title. Who was this appealing, neurotic star, so publicity-shy that she was dubbed the “American Garbo” by Movie Classic magazine in 1937?
Jean was born Gladys Georgianna Greene on October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York, to a family that included three older brothers and parents who apparently liked the letter “G.” Starting with a bit part in John Ford’s Cameo Kirby (1923), Jean toiled in silent films for seven years using a screen name that honored her personal heroes, Jeanne D’Arc (Joan of Arc) and King Arthur.
In 1935, Jean’s most distinctive asset caught Capra’s attention: “That voice! Low, husky – at times, it broke pleasingly into the higher octaves like a thousand tinkling bells,” he recalled. By then, J
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This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene in upstate New York, 20 miles south of the Canadian border, has had her year of birth cited variously as 1900, 1905 and 1908. Her place of birth has often been cited as New York City! (Herein we shall rely for those particulars on Miss Arthur's obituary as given in the authoritative and reliable New York Times. The date and place indicated above shall be deemed correct.) Following her screen debut in a bit part in John Ford's Cameo Kirby (1923), she spent several years playing unremarkable roles as ingénue or leading lady in comedy shorts and cheapie westerns. With the arrival of sound she was able to appear in films whose quality was but slightly improved over that of her past silents. She had to contend, for example, with the consummately evil likes of Dr. Fu Manchu (played by future "Charlie Chan" Warner Oland). Her career bloomed with her appearance in Ford's The Whole Town's Talking (1935), in which she played opposite Edward G. Robinson