75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: LIFE's Movie of the Week: Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. http://bit.ly/1BNlnEQ
75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: LIFE's Movie of the Week: Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. http://bit.ly/1BNlnEQ
"In making pictures of Washington, politically timid Hollywood long confined its efforts to the eras preceding President Lincoln's assassination. Its few glances at the contemporary capital have been imaginative rather than reportorial. Now in Frank Capra's new picture, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the architecture, artifacts and anthropological curiosities of that city are recreated with almost fanatical authenticity."
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Wow, this movie is over 80 years old. It was well done.
ReplyDeleteSteve Hart 75 years old. But your comment stands! ;-)
ReplyDeleteOops, I thought I read 1930 somewhere.
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