Tag Archives: Jean Arthur

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. Read More »

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight Read More »

Melodrama starring Arthur as a poor girl working as a waitress who falls in love Read More »

A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her Read More »

After the boat San Luis creates a stop in the interface of Barranca, to provide mailbags and load bananas Read More »

Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster’s confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. Read More »

Monty Banks wants to be like his hero Charles Lindbergh, and will do anything to learn to fly a plane. Read More »

A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty Read More »

Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. Read More »

In suburban Lochester, New England, three people end up living together in high school teacher Nora Shelley’s rental house. Read More »

G-Man Chester Morris poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Read More »

Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him. It turns out the financier of her play is a notorious art collector who steals what he can’t buy and the play he’s financing is just a front for a job he is planning.
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It’s World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere – especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter – creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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It’s been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill unexpectedly returns from the island where he was marooned, what is Vicky to do? Well, having twice been a rather neglected wife, Vicky finds all the attention from two husbands competing for her favors delightful, and is in no hurry to make a decision…much to the discomfiture of hapless Bill and Henry.
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Enigmatic gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small Wyoming town with hopes of quietly settling down as a farmhand. Taking a job on homesteader Joe Starrett’s (Van Heflin) farm, Shane is drawn into a battle between the townsfolk and ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer). Shane’s growing attraction to Starrett’s wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), and his fondness for their son Joey (Brandon de Wilde), who idolizes Shane, force Shane to realize that he must thwart Ryker’s plan.
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