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State of the Union (film)

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State of the Union is a 1948 drama film written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller of the Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay play of the same name. [1]

68 relations: Adolphe Menjou, Advocacy group, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Veiller, Art Baker (actor), Big business, Bipartisanship, Bosley Crowther, Brokered convention, Carl Switzer, Charles Dingle, Charles Lane (actor), Claudette Colbert, Committee for the First Amendment, Dark horse, Detroit, Drama (film and television), DVD, EMKA, Ltd., Film poster, Fireside chats, Frank Capra, George Folsey (cinematographer), Governor of Minnesota, Harold Stassen, Harry S. Truman, Home video, Howard Lindsay, Howard Smith (actor), Irving Bacon, Joseph McBride (writer), Katharine Hepburn, Labor unions in the United States, LaserDisc, Lewis Stone, Liberty Films, Live radio, Maidel Turner, Margaret Hamilton (actress), McCarthyism, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, Myles Connolly, Paramount Pictures, Pierre Watkin, Politics in fiction, Power behind the throne, President of the United States, Raymond Walburn, Republican Party (United States), ..., Robert A. Taft, Russel Crouse, Spencer Tracy, Spencer Tracy filmography, Stanley Andrews, State of the Union (play), The New York Times, Thomas E. Dewey, Tom Fadden, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Television, Van Johnson, Variety (magazine), VHS, Victor Young, Wichita, Kansas, William Hornbeck, 1948 Republican National Convention. Expand index (18 more) »

Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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Advocacy group

Advocacy groups (also known as pressure groups, lobby groups, campaign groups, interest groups, or special interest groups) use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, (born 16 October 1925) is an English-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and film, as well as a producer and singer.

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Anthony Veiller

Anthony Veiller (23 June 1903 – 27 June 1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer.

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Art Baker (actor)

Art Baker (born Arthur Appleton Shank; January 7, 1898DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc.. P. 19. – August 26, 1966) was an American film, television and radio actor.

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Big business

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Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship, sometimes referred to as nonpartisanship, is a political situation, especially in the context of a two-party system, as is the case for countries such as the United States and some other western countries, in which opposing political parties find common ground through compromise.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Brokered convention

In United States politics, a brokered convention (sometimes referred to as an open convention and closely related to a contested convention) can occur during a presidential election when a political party fails to choose a nominee on the first round of delegate voting at the party's nominating convention.

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Carl Switzer

Carl Dean Switzer (August 7, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American singer, child actor, dog breeder and guide.

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Charles Dingle

Not to be confused with Charles Dingle, a US convicted murderer Charles Dingle (December 28, 1887, Wabash, Indiana – January 19, 1956, Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American stage and film actor.

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Charles Lane (actor)

Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 77 years.

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Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, and has been called "The mixture of inimitable beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity".

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Committee for the First Amendment

The Committee for the First Amendment was an action group formed in September 1947 by actors in support of the Hollywood Ten during the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

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Dark horse

A dark horse is a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort, or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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EMKA, Ltd.

EMKA Limited is a division of Universal Television with the sole function of overseeing the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound feature film library.

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Film poster

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.

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Fireside chats

The fireside chats were a series of 31 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (known colloquially as "FDR") between 1933 and 1944.

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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George Folsey (cinematographer)

George Joseph Folsey, A.S.C. (July 2, 1898 – November 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films between 1919 and his retirement in 1976.

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Governor of Minnesota

The Governor of Minnesota is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Minnesota, leading the state's executive branch.

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Harold Stassen

Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Home video

Home video is pre-recorded video media that is either sold, rented or streamed for home entertainment.

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Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay, born Herman Nelke, (March 29, 1889 – February 11, 1968) was an American theatrical producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor.

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Howard Smith (actor)

Howard Irving Smith (August 12, 1893 in Attleboro, Massachusetts – January 10, 1968 in Hollywood, California) was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theatre, radio, films and television.

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Irving Bacon

Irving Bacon (born Irving Von Peters, September 6, 1893 – February 5, 1965) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 500 films.

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Joseph McBride (writer)

Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Labor unions in the United States

Labor unions in the United States are organizations that represent workers in many industries recognized under US labor law.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Lewis Stone

Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player.

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Liberty Films

Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945.

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Live radio

Live radio is radio broadcast without delay.

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Maidel Turner

Maidel Turner (May 12, 1888 – April 12, 1953) was an American movie actress featured in almost 60 films between 1913 and 1951, beginning as the leading lady of The Angel of the Slums (1913) and becoming a comical character actress as she aged.

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Margaret Hamilton (actress)

Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film character actress best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPAPAI, also MPA) was an American organization of high-profile, politically conservative members of the Hollywood film industry.

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Myles Connolly

Myles Connolly (October 7, 1897 – July 15, 1964) was an author and a Hollywood screenwriter/producer.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pierre Watkin

Pierre Frank Watkin (December 29, 1889 – February 3, 1960) was an American character actor in many films, serials, and television series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns.

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Politics in fiction

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element.

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Power behind the throne

The phrase "power behind the throne" refers to a person or group that informally exercises the real power of a high-ranking office, such as a head of state.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Raymond Walburn

Raymond Walburn (September 9, 1887 – July 26, 1969) was an American character actor of stage and screen who appeared in dozens of Hollywood movie comedies and an occasional dramatic role during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Robert A. Taft

Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Taft family.

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Russel Crouse

Russel Crouse (20 February 1893 – 3 April 1966) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility.

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Spencer Tracy filmography

Spencer Tracy (1900–1967) was an American actor.

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Stanley Andrews

Stanley Andrews (born Stanley Andrzejewski, August 28, 1891 – June 23, 1969) was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program Little Orphan Annie and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of the syndicated western anthology television series, Death Valley Days.

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State of the Union (play)

State of the Union is a play by American playwrights Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay about a fictional Republican presidential candidate.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas E. Dewey

Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician.

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Tom Fadden

Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor.

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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, MCA Home Video, MCA Videodisc Inc. and MCA Videocassette Inc.) is the home video distribution division of American film studio Universal Pictures, owned by the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast.

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Universal Television

Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network (since a majority of the company's shows air on NBC, and accounts for most of that network's prime time programming).

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Van Johnson

Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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William Hornbeck

William Hornbeck (born August 23, 1901, Los Angeles, California – died October 19, 1983 Ventura, California) was an American film editor.

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1948 Republican National Convention

The 1948 Republican National Convention was held at the Municipal Auditorium, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 21 to 25, 1948.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union_(film)

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