Highest rated movie: Seven Chances (1925)
Lowest rated movie: Danger Lights (1931)
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Movies starring Jean Arthur have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 68%.
Seven Chances - released in 1925 - is Jean Arthur's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 71 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jean Arthur is Danger Lights - released in 1931 - with a score of 47% based on 1 reviews.
Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." Arthur has been called "the quintessential comedic leading lady."
Arthur is best known for her feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the everyday heroine. Her last performance was the memorable—and distinctly non–comedic—role as the rancher''s wife in George Stevens' Shane (1953).
Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943).
Jean Arthur has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Pierre Watkin, Lew Davis and Frank McLure.
Jean Arthur has worked with these film directors: Frank Capra, George Stevens, William A. Seiter and Cecil B. DeMille.
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