Articles related to "Jean Arthur"

A top star of the 1930s and '40s, Jean Arthur was a bundle of contradictions. Shy and self-conscious, she nonetheless crafted a unique persona that charmed audiences.

Comedy and union activism collide in this Jean Arthur vehicle about class struggle within the walls of a big New York City department store.

In the first of twin DVD releases, Columbia Pictures revisits four of its lesser comedies featuring two great comic actresses and some often-underrated leading men.

History is Made at Night is the kind of romantic melodrama Hollywood pretty much patented in the years between the advent of sound and America's entry into World War II.

Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a classic movie about a David and Goliath struggle against corruption in the Senate which is still vibrant and applicable today.

The Searchers was named the number one Western movie of all time by the American Film Institute. Westerns are films set in the American West.

Jimmy Stewart was an American actor whose movies carried many common themes including hope, inspiration, family, and winning lost causes.

With their adaptation presented at the 33rd Humana Festival, Marc Masterson and Alice-Adrien Hansel capture the spirit of Wendell Berry's poetry.

On film, debonair Charles Boyer was pure Continental romance and sophistication. But in a bittersweet final act, this quiet Frenchman proved himself a real-life romantic.

Classic movie fans who own a TV will be salivating shamelessly throughout July, when Turner Classic Movies screens 39 great Hollywood films from the watershed year 1939.