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  Bright Lights Film Journal | Jean Arthur
Arthur’s early films must have been difficult for the highly intelligent, well-read, sophisticated woman Oller portrays; they were mostly horse operas and slapstick comedies, along with walk-ons in bigger pictures.
But Arthur’s striking personality shone through by the early 1930s, and she gave memorable performances in a series of films that are remembered today as much for her presence as anything else.
Arthur’s disgust with the machinery of stardom led her inexorably to the stage; more respectable, perhaps, but equally or even more problematic for an actress of her skittish sensibilities.
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  Jean Arthur Relationships plus Jean Arthur and You
Jean wants to be adored and worshipped like the royalty she feels she is, and it is difficult for anyone to resist the warmth and attention Arthur lavishes on those she cares about.
Jean Arthur tends to be a loner and is inclined to suppress her feelings.
Jean Arthur seems to have an unusual power of attraction to other people and frequently may associate with others whether they are good for her or not.
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  Jean Arthur by Suprina Frazier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Arthur’s distinctive voice as frog-like and squeaky, however it was this same voice that proved to be one of her best assets and set her apart from many of the other actresses of that era.
Arthur’s hilarious and highly energetic comic performances came across as effortless and natural, one would never guess that she suffered from extreme anxiety both before and after filming a scene and that she would often throw up after her scene was finished.
Arthur’s last two movies were Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair (1948) in which she played a prim congresswoman from the Corn Belt who gets drunk and sings the Iowa State Song; and George Stevens’ Shane (1953) in which she portrayed the wife of a besieged settler.
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 Jean Arthur Information
Arthur's curious voice, best described as being earnestly squeaky, ensured her work in talkies, but she was seldom used to full advantage in the early 30s.
In the early 60s, the extremely reclusive Arthur tentatively returned to show business with a few stage appearances and as an attorney on ill-advised 1966 TV sitcom, ‘The Jean Arthur Show’, which was mercifully cancelled mid-season after only 11 episodes.
Surprisingly, the ultra-introverted Arthur later decided to tackle the extroverted profession of teaching drama, first at Vassar College and then the North Carolina School of the Arts; one of her students at North Carolina remembered Arthur as odd and her lectures as somewhat whimsical and rambling.
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 Jean Arthur information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Arthur's curious voice, best described as being squeaky and frog-like, ensured her work in talkies, but she was seldom used to full advantage in the early 30s.
In the early 60s, the extremely reclusive Arthur tentatively returned to show business with a few stage appearances and as an attorney on ill-advised 1966 TV sitcom, ‘The Jean Arthur Show’, which was mercifully cancelled mid-season after only 11 episodes.
Surprisingly, the ultra-introverted Arthur later decided to tackle the extroverted profession of teaching drama, first at Vassar College and then the North Carolina School of the Arts; one of her students at North Carolina remembered Arthur as odd and her lectures as somewhat whimsical and rambling.
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 Jean Arthur at Reel Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of the silver screen's greatest comediennes, Jean Arthur began her career in silent films but became famous in the 1930's and 40's for her squeaky voice and heroine roles opposite such stars as Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart.
At left is a shot of Arthur taken from George Stevens' THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943), a brilliant comedy written especially for her by Garson Kanin, Robert Russell and Arthur's husband, producer Frank Ross Jr., for which Arthur received her only Best Actress Oscar nomination.
As a result of her new-found commercial success in 1936, Arthur renegotiated her contract with Columbia to include story and director approval on her projects.
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 A Tribute to Jean Arthur
Considering how notoriously publicity-shy she was, Jean Arthur isn't the easiest person to find information about for a tribute article.
In 1966 she had a brief fling at TV with The Jean Arthur Show, but it ran for only 11 weeks.
She retired in 1972, and died in 1991 at the age of 90.
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 Jean Arthur Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H B Warner, Warren Hymer, Ruth Donnelly.
Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, H B Warner.
Starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Jack Palance, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Elisha Cook Jr, Ellen Corby, Emile Meyer.
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 Jean Arthur — www.greenwood.com
Jean Arthur contributed to several branches of the entertainment media--film, radio, stage, television, yet surprisingly, she has been greatly overlooked by many historians.
Arthur exhibited a unique combination of girlish appeal and ladylike competence.
The third article, by Miss Arthur herself, presents her feelings on a subject dear to her, namely the independence of women and how film has contributed to her emancipation.
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 Amazon.ca: Jean Arthur : The Actress Nobody Knew: Books: John Oller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While Jean Arthur may have been the most famous "recluse" that Hollywood ever spawned since Greta Garbo, she was not reclusive at all in some ways.
He uncovers Arthur's family history, reveals her true date and place of birth, her warm but distanced relationship with her mother, her early apprentiship in silents and talkies, her eventual rise to stardom and her life away from acting.
Jean Arthur never wrote her autobiography and is quoted as preferring to "slit her throat" rather than be interviewed.
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 Jean Arthur at AllExperts
In 1943, she received her only Oscar nomination for "The More the Merrier" (1943), the second of her two great 40s films directed by George Stevens ("The Talk of the Town" from 1942 was the first, Stevens referring her to as one of the greatest comediennes the screen had ever seen).
After the forgettable comedy "The Impatient Years" in 1944, Arthur made only two more films: Billy Wilder's "A Foreign Affair" (1948), and George Stevens' classic "Shane" (1953; she was 50 years old during filming).
She then retired for good, retreating to her ocean home in Carmel, California, steadfastly refusing interviews until her resistance was broken down by the author of a book on her one-time director Frank Capra (she once famously said that she'd rather have her throat slit than do an interview).
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Jean Pierre Boyer was the first president of the Republic of Haiti.
Jean Arthur's film career started during the silent era, but playing mostly in film shorts and westerns.
Arthur debuted in the silent film Cameo Kirby in 1923, and made a few silent movies, although it was her high-pitched, nasal voice which eventually made her a star in the talkies.
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 Jean Arthur - Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jean Arthur was a great actress who excelled in the roles she did in the "screwball comedies" in Hollywood during the thirties and early forties.
Smith Goes To Washington." Jean Arthur was Frank Capra's "favorite actress." In 1935, she appeared in "The Whole Town is Talking." It was this film that brought out the comedic part of her.
In 1966, Jean tried out television in "The Jean Arthur Show." Later on, she was invited by Merv Griffin to appear on his television show with Frank Capra.
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 Amazon.com: Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew: Books: John Oller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Arthur was an extremely private person--"America's Garbo," as she was called--and in the final decades of her life, snubbed all efforts from outsiders seeking autographs or interviews about her glorious past.
Arthur was apparently a very complex person, with lots of insecurities and neuroses that made her somewhat of a problem to work with.
Arthur in "First Monday in October"-- was "barely twenty" that year (1975), although the Internet Broadway Database gives her birth date as 8/16/52, making her over 23 at the time.
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 Moviecrazed
Jean was so alone that eventually she turned to Erich Fromm for help.
Jean learned to laugh, and then she learned to fly high on Broadway in 1950 in her triumphant "Peter Pan." But there was little laughter and even less triumph connected with her futile struggle to bring "Saint Joan" to Broadway in 1954.
Jean Arthur doesn’t say a word, but she beams like someone who’s just been told she’s going to graduate summa cum laude.
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Jean Giraudoux was a French poet, novelist and playwright.
Arthur gravitated to the counterculture and agreed in 1967 to do a play called The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake.
One of the silver screen's greatest comediennes, Jean Arthur began her career in silent films but became famous in the 1930's and 40's for her squeaky voice and heroine roles opposite such stars as Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart.
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 Jean Arthur - MovieActors.com
Jean Arthur was born on October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York.
Jean Arthur's screen debut was in a bit part in CAMEO KIRBY (1923).
Jean Arthur wore her natural brunette hair color throughout the silent film portion of her career, then began bleaching her hair blonde shortly after she started making talkies.
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 The Austin Chronicle: Screens: The Benda Mask: Untold secrets of Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur is the girl of the Benda mask, circa 1929.
Whirlpool was Arthur's first contract commitment to Columbia, who broke her again a decade later when the studio's notorious Harry Cohn drove her screaming off-screen, save for her final two films, Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948) and Shane (1953).
As with Arthur, fate was as cruel as it was kind to Sturges.
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 Jean Arthur at Hollywood.com
After a brief time on the New York stage, Jean Arthur made her feature film debut in John Ford's "Cameo Kirby" (1923) and appeared as an ingenue in numerous low-budget silent westerns and comedy shorts.
Arthur's smooth transition to sound was aided by her nasal voice, sometimes sexy, other times squeaky, and she won immense popularity in John Ford's "The Whole Town's Talking" (1935).
With her increased prestige, Arthur chose her later roles wisely, her last decade of work including Billy Wilder's superior romantic comedy "A Foreign Affair" (1948) and the George Stevens classics "The Talk of the Town" (1942), "The More the Merrier" (1943) and "Shane" (1953).
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 Jean Arthur - Overview - MSN Movies
October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, NY Biography:The daughter of a commercial artist, "Jean Arthur" became a model early in life, then went on to work in films.
It was the first of many disappointments for the young actress, but she persevered and, by 1928, was being given co-starring roles at Paramount Pictures.
Arthur's curious voice, best described as possessing a lilting crack, ensured her work in talkies, but she was seldom used to full advantage in the early '30s.
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 CAC Manuscripts: MS 741
The Jean Arthur Papers include scrapbooks, correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, publications, tape recordings, and family papers.
Jean Arthur was born Gladys Greene in New York in 1900.
The photographs are mostly publicity prints of Jean Arthur posed and in some of her roles.
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 Jean Arthur
Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund star in A Foreign Affair, a humorous romantic drama centered around post-war Berlin.
On her way to Berlin is Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur), an icy woman from America, who is going to record her visit and report back to the government.
Phoebe finds out about her and decides to track her down, and Pringle decides the only way he can save her life is to lead on Phoebe and bribe her into letting Erika go.
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 Jean-Christophe Novelli - Arthur Price Cutlery, Tableware and Gifts
Called 'Novelli by Arthur Price', this is the first ever range of kitchen utensils from Arthur Price, as well as the first ever product range under Jean-Christophe's name.
Designed by Jean-Christophe and Arthur Price's own design team, each item has been crafted to provide a stylish addition to any home, from the quality of the finish to the feel and balance of each item in the hand.
And that means the whole experience, right down to the kitchenware and cutlery you use to cook and eat it with.
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 Jean Arthur (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The Roaring Rider (1926) (as Miss Jean Arthur)....
Jean Arthur performed in the 1950 revival of J.M. Barrie's "PETER PAN" on Monday, April 24, 1950, at the Imperial Theatre, New York City, Performances 321.
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 Jean Arthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In an earlier age, she was known as unconventional: A Hollywood star who shunned the press, ignored her fans, and fought the studio monopoly system in court and out.
Shy and insecure, Arthur struggled in summer stock and movie shorts for years before finding her character as a madcap heroine in three Frank Capra films, Mr.
After abandoning film, Arthur enrolled in college, taught drama, and struggled to make a comeback on Broadway playing Jeanne D'Arc--the French maiden whose first name Arthur had adopted when she began acting.
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 Jean Arthur - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Download, listen and watch Jean Arthur music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Jean Arthur - Actor Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him.
Standing before a divorce court judge (Edgar Buchanan) are Sergeant Andy Anderson (Lee Bowman) and Janie Anderson (Jean Arthur) asking him to dissolve their marriage.
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl.
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