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After ''Shane'' and ''Saint Joan'', Arthur went into retirement for 11 years. In 1965, she returned to show business in an episode of ''[[Gunsmoke]]''. In 1966, the extremely reclusive Arthur took on the role of Patricia Marshall, an [[Lawyer|attorney]], on her own television sitcom, ''[[The Jean Arthur Show]]'', which was cancelled midseason by [[CBS]] after only 12 episodes. [[Ron Harper (actor)|Ron Harper]] played her son, attorney Paul Marshall.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
In 1967, Arthur was coaxed back to Broadway to appear as a Midwestern [[spinster]] who falls in with a group of [[hippie]]s in the play ''[[The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake]]''. In his book ''The Season, ''[[William Goldman]] reconstructed the disastrous production, which eventually closed during previews when Arthur refused to go on.
Arthur next decided to teach drama, first at [[Vassar College]] and then the [[North Carolina School of the Arts]].
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