Have a drink senator It'll taste better than the truth.

Description: A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...

Cast:
Saunders: Jean Arthur
Jefferson Smith: James Stewart
Senator Joseph Paine: Claude Rains
Jim Taylor: Edward Arnold
Governor Hopper: Guy Kibbee
Diz Moore: Thomas Mitchell
Chick McGann: Eugene Pallette
Ma Smith: Beulah Bondi
Senate Majority Leader: H.B. Warner
President of the Senate: Harry Carey
Susan Paine: Astrid Allwyn
Mrs. Hopper: Ruth Donnelly
Senator MacPherson: Grant Mitchell
Senator Monroe: Porter Hall
H.V. Kaltenborn: H.V. Kaltenborn
Nosey: Charles Lane
Senate Minority Leader: Pierre Watkin
Carl Cook: Dick Elliott
Bill Griffith: William Demarest
Hopper Boy: Harry Watson
Hopper Boy (as Baby Dumpling): Larry Simms
Hopper Boy (as Gary Watson): Garry Watson
Handwriting Expert: Frank Puglia
Hoodlum: Charles Regan
Senator Hodges: Stanley Andrews
Reporter: Billy Wayne
Senator Lancaster: Sam Ash
Senator: Henry Roquemore
Inventor at Smith's Office Door: Frank Austin
Senator Hammett: Harry A. Bailey
Boy Ranger: Layne Tom Jr.
Committeewoman: Eleanor Wood
Senate Clerk: Robert Morgan
Hopper's Butler: Wilson Benge
Foreign Diplomat: Count Stefenelli
Family Man: Wade Boteler
Arthur Kim: Harry C. Bradley
Photographer: John Ward
Senate Reporter: Craig Stevens
Senator Dwight: Al Bridge
Mr. Edwards - Howling Citizen: Harlan Briggs
Newspaper employee: Edward Brophy
Boy Cheering for Smith in Meeting: Tommy Bupp
Senator Dearhorn: Frederick Burton
Third Radio Speaker: Georgia Caine
Announcer: Ken Carpenter
Sweeney Farrell - Newsman: Jack Carson
Townsend: Burr Caruth
Ragner - Newsman: Allan Cavan
Committeeman: William Worthington
Mrs. McGann: Dora Clement
Minor Role: David Wade
Assistant Bartender: Ralph McCullough
Senator Gower: Edmund Cobb
Woman at Station: Lorna Gray
Man in Press Section of Senate Gallery: Chester Conklin
Waiter: Joe Devlin
Barber: Gino Corrado
Diggs - Newsman: Maurice Costello
Speaker: Alec Craig
Paine's Secretary: Helen Jerome Eddy
Paine's Friend: Frederick Vroom
Hat Salesman / Secretary: Harry Depp
Secretary: John Dilson
Senate Chaplain: Neal Dodd
Taylor's Stooge: Lester Dorr
Francis Scott Key: Douglas Evans
Hopper's Secretary: Byron Foulger
Hopper Girl: Frances Gifford
Angry committee member: Gus Glassmire
Woman: Mary Gordon
Black Committeeman: Jesse Graves
Senate Guard: Dave Willock
Senator in final scene: Cliff Hall
House Boy: Wilfred Hari
First Radio Announcer: Harry Hayden
Soapbox Speaker: Louis Jean Heydt
Butler: Edward Thomas
Senator Fernwick: John Ince
Senator Byron: Frank Jaquet
Pageboy Richard Jones: Dickie Jones
Editor: Robert Emmett Keane
Summers - newsman: Joe King
Reporter Asking 'What Do You Think of the Girls in This Town?': Evalyn Knapp
Senator Carlton: Wright Kramer
Bodyguard: Harry Tenbrook
Rabbi: P.H. Levy
Mrs. Edwards: Vera Lewis
Chorus Member: Jack Lindquist
Chief Clerk: Arthur Loft
Pompous Man: Ben Taggart
Head Sister: Mary MacLaren
Nun with Cheering Orphan Boys: Margaret Mann
Man in Senate Building: Bert Moorhouse
Senator Albert: Philo McCullough
Civil War Veteran at Lincoln Memorial: Lafe McKee
Second Radio Announcer: Robert Middlemass
Shoe Salesman: Howard M. Mitchell
Porter: Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Senator Fuller: Edmund Mortimer
Senator Alfred: Frank O'Connor
Fisk: Frank Otto
Lang: Jack Rice
Senator Manchester: Jack Richardson
Otis Hopper: Johnny Russell
Newspaperman with Pipe: Walter Sande
Kenneth Allen: Russell Simpson
Senator Pickett: Walter Soderling
Senator Atwater: Harry Stafford
Senator Ashman: Wyndham Standing
Flood - Newsman: Paul Stanton
Senator Burdette: Carl Stockdale
Cab Driver: Charles Sullivan
Senator Carlisle: Ferris Taylor
Doorman: Arthur Thalasso
Hendricks: Frank M. Thomas
Senator Grainger: Victor Travis
Mrs. Taylor: Laura Treadwell
Undetermined Role: John Tyrrell
Senator Holland: Robert Walker
Jane Hopper: Myonne Walsh
Schultz - Newsman: Lloyd Whitlock

Written by: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, Myles Connolly

Director: Frank Capra

Production: Columbia Pictures

Release date: 19 Oct 1939

Box Office: $144,738