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Jean Arthur

1900 - 1991

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Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s. Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can't Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Arthur has received more than 2,867,084 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Jean Arthur is the 1,120th most popular actor (up from 1,149th in 2019), the 1,923rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,049th in 2019) and the 523rd most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.9M

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  • 58.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jean Arthur ranks 1,120 out of 13,578Before her are Daryl Hannah, Valentina Cortese, Ricardo Montalbán, Lee Remick, Christiane Martel, and Eddie Constantine. After her are Frances Conroy, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Armand Assante, Ray Stevenson, Carel Struycken, and Pedro Alonso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Jean Arthur ranks 73Before her are Helene Weigel, Katina Paxinou, Agnes Moorehead, Camille Chamoun, Wilhelm Rediess, and William Heinesen. After her are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, Robert Desnos, George Uhlenbeck, Marc Allégret, and Eduardo De Filippo. Among people deceased in 1991, Jean Arthur ranks 65Before her are W. Arthur Lewis, Brad Davis, Boris Pugo, Jerzy Kosiński, Lee Remick, and William Heinesen. After her are Henri de Lubac, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Vilém Flusser, Sergey Akhromeyev, Giacomo Manzù, and Héctor Rial.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jean Arthur ranks 1,923 out of 20,380Before her are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Frank Stella (1936), Lee Remick (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruno Mars (1985), and Eddie Constantine (1913). After her are Whitey Bulger (1929), Frances Conroy (1953), Nancy Fraser (1947), Armand Assante (1949), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jean Arthur ranks 523Before her are Don Murray (1929), Ernie Hudson (1945), Jerry Stiller (1927), Daryl Hannah (1960), Lee Remick (1935), and Eddie Constantine (1913). After her are Frances Conroy (1953), Armand Assante (1949), Lee Majors (1939), Billy Dee Williams (1937), Dana Elcar (1927), and Sydney Chaplin (1926).

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