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While living in North Carolina, in 1973, Arthur made front-page news by being arrested and jailed for [[trespassing]] on a neighbor's property to console a dog she felt was being mistreated.<ref name=gdt>{{cite news|title=Actress Jean Arthur arrested, convicted|newspaper=Greeley Daily Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2722754/greeley_daily_tribune/|agency=Greeley Daily Tribune|date=April 14, 1973|page=18|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=June 30, 2015|archive-date=August 16, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816010223/https://www.newspapers.com/article/greeley-daily-tribune/2722754/|url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> An animal lover her entire life, Arthur said she trusted them more than people.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oller|first=John|title=Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew|publisher=Limelight Editions|year=2004|isbn=0-87910-278-0|page=167|language=English}}</ref> She was convicted, fined $75, and given three years' probation.<ref name=gdt/>
 
After 11 performances of ''[[First Monday in October]]'' in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975, Arthur then retired for good, retreating to [[Driftwood Cottage]], her oceanside home on [[Carmel Point]] at the southern city limits of [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.architecturaldigest.com/article/1976/5/architectural-digest-visits-jean-arthur|title=Architectural Digest: Jean Arthur|website=archive.architecturaldigest.com|author=Russell Mac Masters|date=1976|access-date=2022-11-08|archive-date=2022-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108180156/https://archive.architecturaldigest.com/article/1976/5/architectural-digest-visits-jean-arthur|url-status=live}}</ref> steadfastly refusing interviews until her resistance was broken down by the author of a book about Capra. Arthur once famously said that she would rather have her throat slit than give an interview.<ref>Parish 2002, p. 92.</ref>
 
Arthur was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and supported the campaigns of [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]] and [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1960.<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine'', November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers</ref>