Riven

James Stewart

as Jefferson Smith

Jean Arthur

as Clarissa Saunders

Claude Rains

as Joseph Paine

Edward Arnold

as Jim Taylor

Guy Kibbee

as Governor Hopper

Thomas Mitchell

as Diz Moore

Eugene Pallette

as Chick McGann

Beulah Bondi

as Ma Smith

H.B. Warner

as Senate Majority Leader

Harry Carey

as President of the Senate

Astrid Allwyn

as Susan Paine

Ruth Donnelly

as Emma Hopper

Grant Mitchell

as Senator MacPherson

Porter Hall

as Senator Monroe

Pierre Watkin

as Senator Barnes

Charles Lane

as Nosey

William Demarest

as Bill Griffith

Dick Elliott

as Carl Cook

Billy Watson

as Peter Hopper

Delmar Watson

as Jimmie Hopper

John Russell

as Hopper Boy

Harry Watson

as Hopper Boy

Garry Watson

as Hopper Boy

Larry Simms

as Hopper Boy

H.V. Kaltenborn

as Radio Broadcaster

Russell Simpson

as Kenneth Allen (uncredited)

Frances Gifford

as Hopper Girl (uncredited)

Colin James Mackey

as Narrator (uncredited)

Wilson Benge

as Hopper's Butler (uncredited)

Dickie Jones

as Richard Jones (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Frank Puglia

as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Maurice Cass

as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)

Stanley Andrews

as Senator Hodges (uncredited)

Al Bridge

as Senator Dwight (uncredited)

Edwin August

as Senator (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

as Senator Gower (uncredited)

Sam Ash

as Senator Lancaster (uncredited)

Harry A. Bailey

as Senator Hammett (uncredited)

Stanley Mack

as Senator (uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

as Senate Clerk (uncredited)

Wade Boteler

as Family Man (uncredited)

Dorothy Comingore

as Woman at Station (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

as Reporter (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

as Barber (uncredited)

Ann Doran

as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Robert Emmett Keane

as Editor (uncredited)

Matt McHugh

as Reporter (uncredited)

Kathryn Bates

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Frank Austin

as Inventor (uncredited)

William Arnold

as Reporter (uncredited)

Tommy Baker

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Robert Sterling

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Dub Taylor

as Reporter (uncredited)

George Chandler

as Reporter (uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

as Porter (uncredited)

Jack Carson

as Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)

Tommy Bupp

as Cheering Boy (uncredited)

Dora Clement

as Mrs. McGann (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as Man in Senate Building (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

as Arthur Kim (uncredited)

Lynton Brent

as Photographer (uncredited)

Ed Brewer

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Harlan Briggs

as Mr. Edwards (uncredited)

Harry Burkhardt

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Frederick Burton

as Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)

Georgia Caine

as Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)

Ken Carpenter

as Announcer (uncredited)

Burr Caruth

as Townsend (uncredited)

Allan Cavan

as Ragner (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

as Reporter (uncredited)

Davison Clark

as Committeeman (uncredited)

Richard Clucas

as (uncredited)

Shirley Coates

as Assistant Bartender (uncredited)

Eddie Coke

as Photographer (uncredited)

Hal Cooke

as Reporter (uncredited)

Alec Craig

as Speaker (uncredited)

Anne Cornwall

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

George Cooper

as Waiter (uncredited)

Georgie Cooper

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Jack Cooper

as Photographer (uncredited)

Nick Copeland

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Vernon Dent

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Maurice Costello

as Diggs (uncredited)

Beatrice Curtis

as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Lew Davis

as Senate Clerk (uncredited)

Dulcie Day

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Wally Dean

as Paine's Friend (uncredited)

Harry Depp

as Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)

Helen Jerome Eddy

as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Douglas Evans

as Francis Scott Key (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

as Waiter (uncredited)

Clyde Dilson

as Reporter (uncredited)

John Dilson

as Secretary (uncredited)

Neal Dodd

as Senate Chaplain (uncredited)

Lester Dorr

as Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

as Reporter (uncredited)

Edward Earle

as Reporter (uncredited)

Jack Egan

as Reporter (uncredited)

Eddie Fetherston

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Mabel Forrest

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Gladys Gale

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Jack Gardner

as Reporter (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

as Woman (uncredited)

June Gittelson

as Woman at Station (uncredited)

Lorna Gray

as Woman at Station (uncredited)

Harry Hayden

as First Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Louis Jean Heydt

as Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)

John Ince

as Senator Fernwick (uncredited)

Frank Jaquet

as Senator Byron (uncredited)

Philo McCullough

as Senator Albert (uncredited)

Wright Kramer

as Senator Carlton (uncredited)

Henry Hebert

as Senator (uncredited)

Fred Hoose

as Senator (uncredited)

Richard Kipling

as Senator (uncredited)

Roger Haliday

as Senate Guard (uncredited)

Wilfred Hari

as House Boy (uncredited)

Philip Hurlic

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten

as Butler (uncredited)

Lloyd Ingraham

as Committeeman (uncredited)

Mitchell Ingraham

as (uncredited)

Dick Jensen

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

John Lester Johnson

as Butler (uncredited)

Eddie Kane

as Reporter (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

as Reporter (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Joe King

as Summers (uncredited)

Evalyn Knapp

as Reporter (uncredited)

Paul Kruger

as Bodyguard (uncredited)

Bobby Larson

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Billy Lechner

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Jackie Lowe

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

P.H. Levy

as Rabbi (uncredited)

Vera Lewis

as Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)

Jack Lindquist

as Chorus Member (uncredited)

George Lloyd

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

Arthur Loft

as Chief Clerk (uncredited)

Jack Low

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

Jimmie Lucas

as Photographer (uncredited)

Mary MacLaren

as Head Sister (uncredited)

Hank Mann

as Photographer (uncredited)

Margaret Mann

as Nun (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

as Man in Senate Building (uncredited)

Ralph McCullough

as Assistant Bartender (uncredited)

George McKay

as Reporter (uncredited)

Lafe McKee

as Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)

Ben Taggart

as Pompous Man (uncredited)

Field Norton

as Pompous Man (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas

as Pompous Man (uncredited)

Sammy McKim

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

James McNamara

as Reporter (uncredited)

William Newell

as Reporter (uncredited)

Robert Middlemass

as Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)

James Millican

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Howard M. Mitchell

as Shoe Salesman (uncredited)

Charles R. Moore

as Porter (uncredited)

Gene Morgan

as Reporter (uncredited)

Robert Morgan

as Senate Clerk (uncredited)

Ray Nichols

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Alex Novinsky

as Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

as Senator Alfred (uncredited)

Frank Otto

as Fisk (uncredited)

Joe Palma

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

Spencer Quinn

as (uncredited)

Tom Quinn

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Ed Randolph

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Charles Regan

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

Jack Rice

as Lang (uncredited)

Wyndham Standing

as Senator Ashman (uncredited)

Ferris Taylor

as Senator Carlisle (uncredited)

Jack Richardson

as Senator Manchester (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

as Senator Pickett (uncredited)

Harry Stafford

as Senator Atwater (uncredited)

Victor Travis

as Senator Grainger (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale

as Senator Burdette (uncredited)

Bob Walker

as Senator Holland (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore

as Senator (uncredited)

Craig Stevens

as Senate Reporter (uncredited)

Paul Stanton

as Flood a Newsman (uncredited)

Johnny Russell

as Otis Hopper (uncredited)

Walter Sande

as Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)

Frank M. Thomas

as Hendricks (uncredited)

Harry Strang

as Bodyguard (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

as Bodyguard (uncredited)

Dave Willock

as Senate Guard (uncredited)

Lloyd Whitlock

as Schultz (uncredited)

John Tyrrell

as (uncredited)

Frederick Vroom

as Paine's Friend (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

Arthur Thalasso

as Doorman (uncredited)

Edward Thomas

as Butler (uncredited)

Laura Treadwell

as Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)

Layne Tom Jr.

as Boy Ranger (uncredited)

Myonne Walsh

as Jane Hopper (uncredited)

Billy Wayne

as Reporter (uncredited)

Max Waizmann

as Photographer (uncredited)

John Ward

as Photographer (uncredited)

Jane Loofbourrow

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Blanche Payson

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Emma Tansey

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Bess Wade

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Florence Wix

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Eleanor Wood

as Committeewoman (uncredited)

Jesse Graves

as Black Committeeman (uncredited)

Gus Glassmire

as Angry Committee Member (uncredited)

Larry Steers

as Committeeman (uncredited)

Landers Stevens

as Committeeman (uncredited)

William Worthington

as Committeeman (uncredited)

Edward Biby

as Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)

Count Stefenelli

as Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)

David Wade

as (uncredited)

Frank McLure

as Senator (uncredited)

Frank Capra

Director

Sidney Buchman

Screenplay

Joseph Walker

Director of Photography

Gene Havlick

Editor

Lewis R. Foster

Story

Dimitri Tiomkin

Original Music Composer

Lionel Banks

Art Direction

Al Clark

Editor

Robert Kalloch

Costume Design

Arthur S. Black Jr.

Assistant Director

Slavko Vorkapich

Visual Effects

Morris Stoloff

Music Director