State of the Union

Watch: State of the Union

4/30/19482h 4m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ How's the State of the Union? It's GREAT! ~

Overview:

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Director:

Frank Capra

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$2,600,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

infidelity
newspaper
journalist
usa president
washington dc, usa
love triangle
politics
republican party
election
presidential candidate
presidential campaign

Cast

Spencer Tracy

~ as ~

Grant Matthews

Katharine Hepburn

~ as ~

Mary Matthews

Van Johnson

~ as ~

Spike McManus

Angela Lansbury

~ as ~

Kay Thorndyke

Adolphe Menjou

~ as ~

Jim Conover

Lewis Stone

~ as ~

Sam Thorndyke

Margaret Hamilton

~ as ~

Norah

Charles Dingle

~ as ~

Bill Nolard Hardy

Charles Lane

~ as ~

Blink Moran

Howard Smith

~ as ~

Sam I. Parrish

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
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 resources (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...