State of the Union
How's the State of the Union? It's GREAT!
1948 | 124m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Frank Capra |
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| Writer: | Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly |
| Staring: |
| An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 30, 1948 |
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| Director: | Frank Capra |
| Writer: | Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | love triangle, washington dc, usa, journalist, usa president, newspaper, infidelity, politics, republican party, election, presidential candidate, presidential campaign |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Liberty Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $2,600,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Spencer Tracy | Grant Matthews |
| Katharine Hepburn | Mary Matthews |
| Van Johnson | Spike McManus |
| Angela Lansbury | Kay Thorndyke |
| Adolphe Menjou | Jim Conover |
| Lewis Stone | Sam Thorndyke |
| Margaret Hamilton | Norah |
| Charles Dingle | Bill Nolard Hardy |
| Charles Lane | Blink Moran |
| Howard Smith | Sam I. Parrish |
| Irving Bacon | Buck Swenson |
| Maidel Turner | Lulubelle Alexander |
| Raymond Walburn | Judge Alexander |
| Ellen Ross | Secretary |
| Eve Whitney | Secretary |
| Arthur O'Connell | First Reporter |
| Frank Mayo | City Official |
| Tor Johnson | Wrestler |
| Patti Brady | Joyce Matthews |
| Georgie Nokes | Grant Matthews Jr. |
| Carl Switzer | Bellboy |
| Tom Fadden | Waiter |
| Tom Pedi | Barber |
| Jerry Schumacher | Newsreel Cameraman |
| Harry Anderson | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Stanley Andrews | Senator (uncredited) |
| Herschel Graham | Assistant Cameraman (uncredited) |
| Eddie Kane | Television Prompter (uncredited) |
| Roger Moore | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Charles Sherlock | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Dave Willock | Pilot (uncredited) |
| Joe Gilbert | Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Frank Capra | Director |
| Irene | Costume Design |
| Howard Lindsay | Theatre Play |
| Russel Crouse | Theatre Play |
| Urie McCleary | Art Direction |
| Eylla Jacobs | Script Supervisor |
| George J. Folsey | Director of Photography |
| William Hornbeck | Editor |
| Emile Kuri | Set Decoration |
| Anthony Veiller | Screenplay |
| Myles Connolly | Screenplay |
| Victor Young | Original Music Composer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Frank Capra | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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This is a fine example of the on screen chemistry between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The former is a successful businessman talked into running for the Republican nomination for US President by the ambitious "Kay Thorndyke" (Angela Lansbury). She vows to put her not inconsiderable resource ... s (newspapers and the like) behind his campaign. His wife "Mary" (Hepburn) is somewhat of a free spirit, as you'd expect, and soon she proves to be a bit of a liability to the party machine encouraging her husband to challenge the establish politics (and politicians) not only rocking, but potentially sinking the boat. Lansbury stands out for me here, she plays the duplicitous character convincingly marrying subtle menace with a femme-fatale style elegance really well. There are a couple of solid supporting roles from Adolphe Menjou and the slick Van Johnson ("Spike") and the whole scenario gives us an interesting, well written, look at just how undemocratic an election proves can actually be...