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Jean Arthur has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1950s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
The Quiet Man
1952
Romance · Comedy

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

The Talk of the Town
1942 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

Shane
1953 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Paramount+ · Included

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Dir. Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Dir. Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
Dir. George Stevens · With Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
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