STATE OF THE UNION (10/16/47) Frank Capra / Tracy & Hepburn / MGM Vault Script + COA!

*Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture!

*Stiff MGM Covers - "MIMEOGRAPH FILE COPY", "COMPLETE", and "VAULT COPY" Original Hand-Stamps - "Please Return" MGM Script Department Sticker - Stamped "105" copy number - "5227" Production Number stamp at top right of cover - Script has pencil notes on the inside of both front and back covers regarding the dates of submitted revisions. 

*Liberty Films, Inc. - "State of the Union" -  September 16, 1947 - Hefty 147 White, Blue, Yellow and Pink Pages - No separate title page - no writers noted - Credited IMDB writers are Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse and Anthony Veillier - Based on the Pulitzer-Winning play written by Lindsay and Crouse. Directed by the great Frank Capra! This script is 77-years-old and still packs a punch!

*OVERALL CONDITION: Very Good to Fine - See Photos - Has tape over top brad on front cover and tape along the bottom border on the inside of the front cover - Give this classic, old-Hollywood beauty a new home and the TLC she deserves and she'll shine in your collection. Enjoy!

*HISTORICAL INFORMATION:  State of the Union is a 1948 American drama film directed by Frank Capra about a man's desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. The New York Times described it as "a slick piece of screen satire...sharper in its knife-edged slicing at the hides of pachyderm schemers and connivers than was the original." 

The film was written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller and was based on the 1945 Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Capra and his screenwriters remained extremely faithful to the play, and, as the authors of the play had done during its two-year run, updated the script during filming to keep it timely. Spencer Tracy was the first choice of both Capra and the authors of the play to play the lead. Katharine Hepburn costars, and Adolphe Menjou, Van Johnson and Angela Lansbury play key roles. The film was Capra's only project for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was also the second and final film to be made by Liberty Films before it dissolved in 1951.

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

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