Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur ( born October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York, † June 19, 1991 in Carmel, California; actually Gladys Georgianna Greene) was an American actress who was one in the 1930s, the most popular actresses in Hollywood.
Life
Arthur made her debut in the silent film Cameo Kirby of 1923. Due to their high, nasal voice, she was in demand as a supporting actress in the early sound film. In 1929, she was selected by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers to one of 13 WAMPAS Baby Stars. The vote was about the actresses who would most likely have the potential to be a real star. However, Arthur's career was towards the middle of the decade, and she returned to Broadway. A contract with Columbia brought her back again. She celebrated in 1935 on the side of Edward G. Robinson in John Ford's Gangster Posse Stadtgespräch your first major success. But it was only Frank Capra recognized the talent of actress for light comedies.
Her two rollers on the side of Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and The Hero of the prairie they made in 1936 to the final biggest star of the studio. Her fame grew by starring roles in Easy Living, History Is Made At Night, bohemians and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The highlight of her career she achieved with the role in two comedies by George Stevens, a prosecution witness with Cary Grant and Ronald Colman in 1942 and The More the Merrier, in 1943 the only Oscar nomination earned her the best actress. 1938 was the actress one of the many contenders Gone to the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Prominent roles they refused, were, among others, His Girl Friday and My sister Ellen, who both went to Rosalind Russell, as well as Golden Boy and here is John Doe, who went to Barbara Stanwyck. The role in the Broadway success of Born Yesterday they were on the day before the premiere.
The notoriously shy actress quarreled incessantly with studio boss Harry Cohn at Columbia during the years and was so mentally exhausted that they for years retired from Hollywood after the expiration of their contract. Billy Wilder she won in 1948 for playing in the ruins of post-war Berlin film A Foreign Affair back in which it takes away the man as principled U.S. Congressman Frost Marlene Dietrich. She played her last role at the express request of George Stevens in the Western classic Shane, who came to the hire, after almost 12 months post in 1953. After her retirement, she taught drama at Vassar College. In the short-lived television comedy series The Jean Arthur Show on CBS in 1966, she returned back and even briefly to acting. The actress was known for her obsession to turn only the left half of the face of the camera in profile shots. Frank Capra and George Stevens who called on the set often difficult Jean Arthur as one of her favorite actresses. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, height 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Recalls the actress.
From 1932 to 1949 she was married to the film producer Frank Ross.