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  1. Eve Golden _ Bride of Golden Images

    I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself," {Jean Arthur} later conjectured.
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  2. Eve Golden _ Bride of Golden Images

    Talking films revealed {Jean Arthur}'s quirky, remarkable voice: nasal, raspy, querulous- an odd, expressive voice which somehow fit her intense, funny and very smart screen persona.
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  3. Eve Golden _ Bride of Golden Images

    I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of personality to make anyone believe I had special talents. I wanted so desperately to succeed that I drove myself relentlessly, taking no time off for pleasures, or for friendships." - Jean Arthur
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  4. Eve Golden _ Bride of Golden Images

    Her first really great role, the one that cemented the "Jean Arthur character," was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town {1936}. It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra's rendition of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You {1938}, and she was another hard-boiled city gal won over by a starry-eyed yokel in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington {1939}. "Jean Arthur is my favorite actress," said Capra, who had successfully worked with Stanwyck, Colbert and Hepburn. ". . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress." Capra obviously recognized that Jean was often frustrated in her career choice.
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