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TCM January 2026 At a Glance: Star of the Month; Sammy Cahn tribute
TCM January 2026 At a Glance
Star of the Month: Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American film and theater 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. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart. These three films all championed the "everyday heroine", personified by Arthur. She also co-starred with Cary Grant in the adventure-drama Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and in the comedy-drama The Talk of the Town (1942). She starred as the lead in the acclaimed and highly successful comedy films The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and A Foreign Affair (1948), the latter of which she starred alongside Marlene Dietrich. Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.
James Harvey wrote in his history of the romantic comedy: "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." She has been called "the quintessential comedic leading lady". Her last film performance was non-comedic, playing the homesteader's wife in George Stevens's "Shane" in 1953.
Like Greta Garbo, Arthur was well known in Hollywood for her aversion to publicity; she was very guarded about her privacy and rarely signed autographs or granted interviews. Life observed in a 1940 article: "Next to Garbo, Jean Arthur is Hollywood's reigning mystery woman." As well as recoiling from interviews, after a certain age, she avoided photographers and refused to become a part of any kind of publicity.
Jean Arthur TCM profile
Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American film and theater 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. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart. These three films all championed the "everyday heroine", personified by Arthur. She also co-starred with Cary Grant in the adventure-drama Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and in the comedy-drama The Talk of the Town (1942). She starred as the lead in the acclaimed and highly successful comedy films The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and A Foreign Affair (1948), the latter of which she starred alongside Marlene Dietrich. Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.
James Harvey wrote in his history of the romantic comedy: "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." She has been called "the quintessential comedic leading lady". Her last film performance was non-comedic, playing the homesteader's wife in George Stevens's "Shane" in 1953.
Like Greta Garbo, Arthur was well known in Hollywood for her aversion to publicity; she was very guarded about her privacy and rarely signed autographs or granted interviews. Life observed in a 1940 article: "Next to Garbo, Jean Arthur is Hollywood's reigning mystery woman." As well as recoiling from interviews, after a certain age, she avoided photographers and refused to become a part of any kind of publicity.
Jean Arthur TCM profile
TCM Spotlight - Flashback Fridays
Special Theme - Songwriter Sammy Cahn (5, 12)
Special Theme - The Working Class (6, 13)
WEEKLY SHOWCASES
MUSICAL MATINEE Sat. Noon (ET)
3 - Camelot (1967)
10 - Double Trouble (1967)
17 - Going Hollywood (1933)
24 - Don't Look Back (1967)
31 - My Dream Is Yours (1949)
NOIR ALLEY Sat. Midnight, Sun. 10 am (ET)
3, 4 - The Second Woman (1950) (TCM Premiere)
10, 11 - Crime of Passion (1957)
17, 18 - Diabolique (1955)
24, 25 - Shield for Murder (1954)
31 - Talk About a Stranger (1952)
SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS Sun. Midnight (ET)
4 - A Woman of Paris (1923)
11 - The First Degree (1923)
18 - The Love Light (1921)
25 - The Invaders (1912)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
TCM IMPORTS Sun. Late 2 am (ET)
4 - Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
Touki Bouki (1973)
11 - La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Place de la République (1974)
18 - La Porta del Cielo (1945) (TCM Premiere)
Umberto D. (1952)
25 - Pitfall (1962)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
JANUARY PREMIERES
- FEATURE FILMS
Jan 3 - The Second Woman (1950)
Jan 6 - North Country (2005)
Jan 7 - The Black Arrow (1948)
Jan 9 - The Gentleman from Texas (1946)
Jan 9 - Land of the Lawless (1947)
Jan 9 - The Law Comes to Gunsight (1947)
Jan 9 - Colorado Ambush (1951)
Jan 9 - Blazing Bullets (1951)
Jan 18 - La Porta del Cielo (1945)
- SHORTS
Holt of the Secret Service 1941 Serial:
Jan 3 - Ch. 2: Ramparts of Revenge (1941)
Jan 10 - Ch. 3: Illicit Wealth (1941)
Jan 17 - Ch. 4: Menaced by Fate (1941)
Jan 24 - Ch. 5: Exits to Terror (1941)
Jan 31 - Ch. 6: Deadly Doom (1941)