The Pause that Refreshes

For a fan of great old movies, every day is a good day to look back at the artists that made it as good as if was. Here’s one of my favorites – the fabulous and funny Jean Arthur. She had a good a sense of comic timing as she had a tremendous personal reserve.

Later called “the star that nobody knew,” she seemed to detest publicity.

Arthur "retired" when her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944. She reportedly ran through the studio's streets, shouting "I'm free, I'm free!"

If that isn’t great comic timing, I don’t know what is. She later went on to appear in Alan Ladd’s Shane as well as Billy Wilder’s “A Foreign Affair”.