It's Jean Arthur week at the Brattle, and since the one Jean Arthur movie I've ever seen (The Talk of the Town) is one of the dozen or so films I'll watch any time anywhere with anybody, it really seemed I ought to give some of her other movies a shot as well.
I recommend Only Angels Have Wings (1939) because I love it desperately and have seen neither half of your double feature, the second half of which sounds bonkers! She is also delightful in the financial screwball of Easy Living (1937), lovely in the romantic disaster WTF of History Is Made at Night (1937), and convincing against type in the Mach 10 cynicism of A Foreign Affair (1948). spatch likes The More the Merrier (1943), which is apparently a wartime romance of sub-subletting. I have indistinct memories of enjoying her in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). She is also in Shane (1953) which I haven't seen since I was in seventh grade despite co-starring presence of Van Heflin. Basically I just like her and I'm so glad the Brattle gave her a series.
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I recommend Only Angels Have Wings (1939) because I love it desperately and have seen neither half of your double feature, the second half of which sounds bonkers! She is also delightful in the financial screwball of Easy Living (1937), lovely in the romantic disaster WTF of History Is Made at Night (1937), and convincing against type in the Mach 10 cynicism of A Foreign Affair (1948).