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At the peak of the Golden Era of Hollywood, one of the film industry's most popular genres was the screwball funny, making actors out of young stars like Jean Harlow and helping pave the way for future ones like Marilyn Monroe. But at the elevation of the age of the screwball funny, the actress most associated with them was Jean Arthur, whose capacity to portray everyday women made her amazingly popular in the 1930s and 1940s. As you critic put it, "No-one was more strongly discovered with the screwball funny than Jean Arthur. A great deal was she part of computer, a whole lot was her superstar personality defined because of it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." Her seemingly effortless skills helped get her ensemble in a few of renowned director Frank Capra's most well-known films, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Capra's films were some of the most critically acclaimed and popular of Depression-era America thanks to viewers having the ability to relate to the personas, and Arthur was crucial in this, as film critic Charles Chaplin once explained, "To at least one teenager in a small town (though I'm sure we were a large number), Jean Arthur suggested strongly that the ideal female could be - ought to be - judged by her nature as well as her beauty...The idea of the girl as a pal and confidante, as well as someone you courted and were nut products about, someone whose true beauty was inside rather than exterior, became a full-blown possibility as we observed Jean Arthur." Arthur was an Oscar nominated actress and one of the richest ladies in the country in the mid-1940s, but she nevertheless retired after her agreement with Columbia concluded in 1944. While that seems like an peculiar decision, Arthur was notorious for attempting to avoid the spotlight and Hollywood's celebrity culture, which led to her being top quality a recluse.
