Movie
State of the Union
Overview
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Details
- Release date
- 1948-04-30
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Liberty Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Irving Bacon as Buck Swenson
- Maidel Turner as Lulubelle Alexander
Crew
- Frank Capra - Director
- Anthony Veiller - Screenplay
- Myles Connolly - Screenplay
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