STATE OF THE UNION [1948 / 2023] [Limited Edition] [Blu-ray] [UK Release]
A Classic Tour der Force Film by the Great Classic Director Frank Capra!
The immortal screen couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn take the lead in this fabulously witty political comedy drama from director Frank Capra, filmed against the background of the 1948 Presidential election.
Wealthy aeroplane manufacturer Grant Matthews [Spencer Tracy] is encouraged to become a presidential candidate by his girlfriend, press baron Kay Thorndyke [Dame Angela Thornbury]. Forced to publicly reunite with his estranged wife Mary Matthews [Katharine Hepburn] in order to present the illusion of a happy marriage, Grant Matthews comes close to nomination. But, as Grant Matthews and Mary Matthews realise that political success will mean compromising their principles, Grant Matthews has a change of heart.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Harold Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and with supporting turns from Dame Angela Lansbury and Adolphe Menjou, ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ is a brilliant blend of political satire and romantic comedy.
FILM FACT: Frank 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. Actress Claudette Colbert was originally cast as Mary Matthews, the wife of Grant Matthews; disagreements with Frank Capra led Claudette Colbert to abandon the picture. Katharine Hepburn was chosen as her replacement only days before filming began. She had been helping Spencer Tracy with the script, and so was already familiar with the part. There was tension between Adolphe Menjou and Katharine Hepburn during the filming, as he was a member of the politically conservative group Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and she had allied herself with the rival Committee for the First Amendment. Adolphe Menjou testified as a friendly witness before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Many sources reported that on set, Katharine Hepburn was “cordial” to Adolphe Menjou when they had scenes together but otherwise would not acknowledge him. In order to cast Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player Spencer Tracy in the film, M-G-M bought the distribution rights to ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’ While most of the major actors in the film were under contract to M-G-M, Frank Capra's own company, Liberty Films produced the film. ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ was originally budgeted at $2.6 million and came in $450,000 under budget. Principal photography took place between the 29th September, 1947 and the 5th December, 1947. Frank Capra bought the rights of novel “State of the Union” and Liberty Films’ assets were acquired by Paramount Pictures. EMKA, Ltd./Universal Television currently owns the rights to the film due to it being a part of Paramount Pictures pre-1950 sound feature film library. It has been released in the USA on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD, and various other territories on the latter format. In 2017, French company Movinside released a remastered edition on Blu-ray and DVD.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Dame Angela Thornbury, Adolphe Menjou, Lewis Stone, Howard Smith, Charles Dingle, Maidel Turner, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Hamilton, Art Baker, Pierre Watkin, Florence Auer, Irving Bacon, Charles Lane, Patti Brady, Georgie Nokes, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Tom Fadden, Tom Pedi, Don Anderson (uncredited), Harry Anderson (uncredited), Stanley Andrews (uncredited), Sam Ash (uncredited), Frank Austin uncredited), David Bair (uncredited), George Barton (uncredited), Brandon Beach (uncredited), Anne Beck (uncredited), Lennie Bluett (uncredited), Jack Boyle (uncredited), Norma Brown (uncredited), Douglas Carter (uncredited), Maurice Cass (uncredited), Naomi Childers (uncredited), Davison Clark (uncredited), David Clarke (uncredited), Frank L. Clarke (uncredited), Gene Coogan (uncredited), Edwin Cooper (uncredited), Fred Datig Jr. (uncredited), Bert Davidson (uncredited), Boyd Davis (uncredited), Lew Davis (uncredited), Drew Demorest (uncredited), Helen Eby-Rock (uncredited), Thornton Edwards (uncredited), Franklyn Farnum (uncredited), Sam Finn (uncredited), Sig Frohlich (uncredited), Joe Gilbert (uncredited), Herschel Graham (uncredited), Jesse Graves (uncredited), Mahlon Hamilton (uncredited), Phil Harron (uncredited), Timmy Hawkins (uncredited), Dell Henderson (uncredited), Al Hill (uncredited), Art Howard (uncredited), Tor Johnson (uncredited), Eddie Kane (uncredited), Jimmy Lennon Sr. (uncredited), Marion Martin (uncredited), Frank Mayo (uncredited), Frank McLure (uncredited), Charles Meakin (uncredited), Russell Meeker (uncredited),
Director: Frank Capra
Producers: Anthony Veiller and Frank Capra
Screenplay: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (based on the play), Leland Hayward (stage play) and Anthony Veiller and Myles Connolly (screenplay),
Composer: Victor Young
Costume Design: Irene Maud Lentz
Make-up: Jack Dawn
Cinematography: George J. Folsey, A.S.C. (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p (Black-and-White)
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: English: 1.0 LPCM Mono Audio
English: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 122 minutes
Region: Region B/2
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Universal Pictures / Liberty Films / Power House / INDICATOR
Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: With the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ [1948] The immortal screen couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn take the lead in this fabulously witty political comedy drama from director Frank Capra, filmed against the background of the 1948 Presidential election.
Wealthy aeroplane manufacturer Grant Matthews [Spencer Tracy] is encouraged to become a presidential candidate by his girlfriend, press baron Kay Thorndyke [Dame Angela Lansbury]. Forced to publicly reunite with his estranged wife Mary Matthews [Katharine Hepburn] in order to present the illusion of a happy marriage, Grant Matthews comes close to nomination. But, as Grant Matthews and Mary Matthews realise that political success will mean compromising their principles, and Grant Matthews has a change of heart.
Beautiful Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews, President of America with Kay Thorndyke as the Lady Macbeth type “power behind the throne” by using her newspaper that was left to her by her dad as the way to influence the voters (nothing’s changed!).
Grant Matthews is at first not interested, but then begins to like the idea as his ego is bolstered. His campaign manager Spike McManus [Van Johnson] persuades him go on tour meeting the people, but to do that he must take Mary Matthews with him and certain people knows about his affair and although heartbroken she agrees to support him in public because of his idealism. “Selflessly” Kay Thorndyke tells Grant Matthews that the scandal will ruin his chances, so they must no longer meet as lovers.
Soon, of course, Grant Matthews finds himself compromised by the demands of lobbyists and special interest groups. Putting Frank Capra's sensible-shoes view of politics is Katharine Hepburn, cast against type as Mary Matthews, the voice of domestic reason.
All the performances in this film are marvellous. Van Johnson is very funny and charming as a newspaperman who becomes Grant Matthews's campaign manager. Adolphe Menjou as Jim Conover is perfect as Kay Thorndyke's mouthpiece who wants to go after the money people and court big business and the union heads. Dame Angela Lansbury is fantastic as the ambitious, cutthroat Kay Thorndyke, who took over the paper from her father and knows how to use and abuse power.
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn trade on their characteristically wonderful chemistry, but the real star of ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ is its sparkling dialogue. The picture doesn't hide its theatrical origins, but loquaciousness isn't a problem with a script this polished. Of course, sharp dialogue is best delivered by sharp actors; the movie benefits from some fine character actors, especially Adolphe Menjou, Dame Angela Lansbury and Van Johnson, who portrays Grant Matthews's prickly campaign manager, Spike McManus.
In true Frank Capra style, Grant Matthews finally realizes that he’s betrayed his and Mary Matthews’s ideals and confesses to the American people live on TV and withdraws as a candidate. Grant Matthews then embraces his wife, because, yeah, he’s good now and they all live happily ever after, yeh, if you believe that you’ll believe anything.
All in all, there is nothing like a Frank Capra film where he says that he wants to stick to his principles and listen to the people who really love me. Add to the Frank Capra's theme of the inherent wisdom of the people, this of course has definitely some of the most first rate group of actors you could ever want in a film of this calibre and you have just over two hours of time well spent viewing this amazing political film, that I feel is very relevant with the political scene in American today.
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Blu-ray Image Quality – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Power House and INDICATOR presents us the 1948 film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ with a wonderful 1080p black-and-white image and of course shown in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio. The brilliant restoration does a really good job in cleaning up the old film print and adding wonderful contrast and much-need depth to the black and white film. However, it does seem that quite a bit of the old film grain was sacrificed in trying to get rid of the old distracting noise. But overall, the film looks even better than ever for modern audiences today. Please Note: Playback Region B/2: This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications.
Blu-ray Audio Quality – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Power House and INDICATOR brings us the 1948 film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ with a 1.0 LPCM Mono Audio experience, and everything from impassioned speeches to the loud buzzes of airplanes come in crisp and clear, and that is all you really need. So all in all, Power House and INDICATOR have done a really five star professional work on this wonderful audio presentation.
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Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
UK Premiere on Blu-ray for the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’
Special Feature: Audio Commentary with Claire Kenny, Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme [Audio only] [2023] [1080p] [1.37:1] [122:33] With this featurette, we get hear an audio commentary with critics and writers Claire Kenny, Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme, and welcomes us to this look at the brilliant Frank Capra political drama film, and they say Frank Capra was in collaboration with M-G-M and Liberty Films, and they also say that Frank Capra after its initial release bought the rights to the film and put his own Liberty Film rights to the film and put his own credits in the film. We are also informed that because of circumstances I have already described, Frank Capra miss spelt people’s names in the credits at the start of the film, and the ones highlighted are Katherine Hepburn and Russel Crouse and also miss spelt his good cinematographer friend George J. Falsey and you hear the other two collaborators laughing in the background about the silly wrong spelling mistakes, and also says this is the print we have and there is not a lot we can do about it. Glenn Kenny informs us that he is a film critic for the New York Times, and then introduces us to the other two commentators and they are Farran Smith Nehme and Claire Kenny who is married to Glenn Kenny. They say that we can take a two pronged attack on this film; by saying either it is a Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy film or even a Frank Capra film. But the film could even be a stage adaption film, which they say Frank Capra was really good at. They also say that the film was a 1045 stage play, which was set in 1946. They also say that certain scenes in the film that was never in the play, because Frank Capra liked to open up the film much more. They talk about the age business of Dame Angela Lansbury in the film, where they wanted her look much older to give her an air of sophistication. They also inform us that this was the 5th film for both Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. They also say that Katharine Hepburn was sort of cordial towards Dame Angela Hepburn. Sadly the rest of this audio commentary is totally boring and totally pointless and to my mind should have been deleted from this Blu-ray release.
Special Feature: The John Player Lecture with Dame Angela Lansbury [Audio only] [1973] [1080p] [1.37:1] [88:32] With this featurette, we get to hear an archival audio recording of the celebrated star Dame Angela Lansbury of film, stage and television in conversation that was conducted by Rex Reed at the National Film Theatre in London in 1973. The following audio presentation was recorded for archival purposes, rather than commercial distribution and may exhibit a range of technical problems as a consequence. Its importance as a unique archival document makes its inclusion here essential. While listening to this archival audio recording presentation, you get to view at the same time the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’ The only negative aspect of this featurette, is when the audience is asked to ask a question for Dame Angela Lansbury, you can hardly hear what they are saying, and why couldn’t they have given them a microphone, but when they do finally supply a microphone to the audience asking the questions, you still have a job trying to understand what they are saying. Despite this slightly negative aspect to this unique featurette, it is still totally brilliant and is a must view and definitely gets a five star rating from me.
Special Feature: National Treasure: Lucy Bolton on Dame Angela Lansbury [2023] [1080p] [1.37:1 / 1.78:1] [29:00] With this featurette, the academic Lucy Bolton discusses the life and eventful career of the much-loved performer Dame Angela Lansbury [1925 – 2022] and the two words that Lucy Bolton sums for this grand dame actress is Versatility and Long Gevity and covers eight decades and feels the actress was a supreme supporting actress in many ways and also had three nominations for a supporting actress and was also called a “utility actress,” which I personally find slightly insulting comment, but sadly the actress was never known as a top tier star like her close friend actresses like Elizabeth Taylor [1932 – 2011] and Judy Garland [1922 – 1969] and sadly Dame Angela Lansbury didn’t attain that great height of stardom, and sadly again was relegated to be more like the supporting roles in films, but despite this, Dame Angela Lansbury was still a great actress, especially in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote” and the voice of Mrs. Potts in the animated film ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ but can always in some films give a very strong performance, especially like characters that were villains, devious and murderess. Dame Angela Lansbury was born in Central London on the 16th October, 1925 and the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill [1895 – 1935] and her English British Communist politician father Edgar Isaac Lansbury [1887 – 1935] and her grandfather George Lansbury [1859 – 1940] was a Labour politician, and Dame Angela Lansbury had two Brothers Bruce Lansbury and Edgar Lansbury, but also had an older half-sister, Isolde Denham [1920 – 1967] from Moyna Macgill's previous marriage to Reginald Denham. Dame Angela Lansbury’s beloved father sadly passed away on 28th May, 1935 and the family were left in financial difficulties and then the Second World War started to happen and to avoid the Blitz and the whole family moved to the United States in 1940 to avoid the relentless bombings. But her oldest sister Isolde Denham stayed in London and eventually married Peter Ustinov [1921 – 2003] in 1940 and they later divorced on 3rd February, 1950 and had a child Tamara Ustinov. Dame Angela Lansbury and family moved to New York and the actress enrolled into a Drama School studying acting in New York City and started to earn , but also with her mother worked in clubs and on stage, and that way Dame Angela Lansbury especially supporting the family, sadly her Mother’s acting career was not very successful, so the whole family moved to Hollywood in 1942 and this is where Dame Angela Lansbury was desperate wanted to be in films, and the actress was at a party where she met a man who was a screenwriter and had just written the screenplay for the film ‘Gaslight’ [1944] and the man arranged for the actress to get a screen-test at M-G-M for that 1944 film and obtained her first film role in that film as a maid and was only 17 years of age and the actress had a marvellous and brilliant time being in that film, and had to pretend to smoke a cigarette and had to be accompanied by a Social Worker, and while in that film turned 18 years of age and had a wonderful birthday party on the set of that film and was Oscar nominated as the character Nancy. From that film the actress then appeared in the film ‘National Velvet’ [1944] with Elizabeth Taylor and from that film Dame Angela Lansbury formed a close life time friendship with the actress Elizabeth Taylor. On top of all that, Dame Angela Lansbury formed a close life time friendship with Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra. Another great film Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in with George Sanders was ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ [1945] and again was nominated for this film. Unfortunately Dame Angela Lansbury while at M-G-M they did not know what to do with the actress and again unfortunately ended up appearing in a few dud films and left the actress in limbo, but despite this. The actress appeared in 11 further M-G-M films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract with M-G-M ended in 1952, and Dame Angela Lansbury was largely seen as a B-list star during this period, but her role in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ [1962] the actress received widespread acclaim and is frequently ranked as one of her best performances ever in a film. But on the bright spot is that Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in the film ‘The Harvey Girls’ with Judy Garland, but of course in that film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ they felt her character in that film was the best, nut the actress was performing in that film if she was in her 40’sbut of course in real life was much younger in age, and for a while this tended to happen for Dame Angela Lansbury in other films playing much older characters, but most of all the actress had a strong powerful screen presence, but sadly and very upset Dame Angela Lansbury the actress was not very happy with her role in films she had to play and went to Louis B. Mayer to put her case to play much more sympathetic roles, and wanted to play the character that Lana Turner would play, but Louis B. Mayer flatly turned down her plea and request for much better roles in films. Towards the end of the 1940’s Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in radio production broadcasts, as things were not going well in films that the actress appeared in. But in 1952 the actress asked her agent to terminate her contract with M-G-M. But in the 1950’s became quite challenging for the actress, and at the same time had two children, and was married to peter Shae [1918 – 2003] so had a very busy family life and the whole family were not happy living in Hollywood, so they all moved to Malibu and the actress was still not happy with the roles she was offered in films to appear in and even roles that were offered for the actress were very thing on the ground, and again in the 1950’s was again a very challenging decade for Dame Angela Lansbury. By the end of the 1950’s decided to try and secure some good roles in films, and eventually appeared in the films ‘The Court Jester’ and ‘Please Murder me!’ and decided to go as a freelance actress and luckily got to secure some interesting roles and appeared in the film ‘The Long Hot Summer’ and also appeared in the film ‘The Reluctant Debutante’ and the actress was determined to forge ahead with her film career, but was also doing television and radio work, and was a very hard working actress, but also did some very serious stage productions on Broadway, and appeared in the very successful stage production of “A Taste of Honey” [1960]. But one outstanding performance in a film at the time was that the actress plays a really mean nasty mother to Lawrence Harvey in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and gave a really powerful performance, and the film was received very well. In 1966 Dame Angela Lansbury went back to Broadway to appear in the theatre production of “Mame” and was an all singing and dancing role for the actress and her very dear friend Judy Garland came back stage and said to Dame Angela Lansbury “I’d doing anything to appear in that role” and Dame Angela Lansbury won a Tony for her role in “Mame” and Dame Angela Lansbury said to Judy Garland she could easily do that role, but very sadly is the at the time Judy Garland was not very well in her life, and the role that Dame Angela Lansbury had in “Mame” was a leading role, and her performance had great stage presence, and the actress loved doing live stage performances and did eight performances of “Mame” a week in front of very appreciated audiences. Then Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in the wonderful Disney film ‘Bednobs and Broomsticks,’ and then went to London and appeared in the stage production of “GYPSY” and then went back to Broadway in the long running production of “CHICAGO,” and got great notices for her performances. Then after that went onto the Broadway stage production of “The King and I” [1978] and then after that appeared in the audiences favourite character in the film ‘Death on the Nile’ [1978] and was the sex starved author who hams it up gloriously, and had a really brilliant time. Then Dame Angela Lansbury played the marvellous Miss Marple in the film ‘The Mirror Cracd’d’ [1980], and then appeared in the remake ‘The lady Vanishes’ [1979]. But of course the role Dame Angela Lansbury is really famous for modern audiences is the very successful American TV series “Murder, She Wrote” [1984 – 1996] as the canny Professional writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher who uses her intellect, charm, and persistence to get to the bottom of every crime she encounters and was of course in that series for 12 years, and the actress really thoroughly enjoyed the role and of course the general public really loved that series and even thought it is repeated today, it is still avidly watched by her adoring fans, but also by the many adoring public at large, nut what was lovely about that TV series, is that some of Dame Angela Lansbury’s oldest and dearest actor friends like Ron Moody and Cyd Charisse made appearances in that TV series, and it was a role call for Dame Angela Lansbury and her celebrity friends, especially at the time when those particular actors were not working, and Dame Angela Lansbury felt the later episodes in “Murder, She Wrote” got much better and the actress really got into her character and also got very involved with the TV series. Unfortunately Dame Angela Lansbury’s husband passed away in 2003 and of course the actress was extremely upset and extremely sad, because they had been married for well of 50 years, but being who Dame Angela Lansbury was, carried on working and was in the film ‘Nanny McFee’ [2005], then Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in the BBC Television production of “Little Women” [2017] and the actress really enjoyed the experience immensely. But before all that, decided to go back to Broadway to appear in the stage production of “DUECE” [2007], and also appeared in the Broadway production of “Blithe Spirit” [2009], then appeared in the Broadway production of “A Little Night Music” [2009] and although the actress was now getting quite elderly, but it did not stop the actress from performing, and especially in the NETFLIX production of ‘Glass Onion’ [2022]. But before that, Dame Angela Lansbury appeared in the film ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ [2018] and her star presence was well and truly achieved. Dame Angela Lansbury was undouble a great actress and never appeared in the same character in any of her films or stage performances, and was very committed to her acting career. Since the sad death of Dame Angela Lansbury, the tributes have come thick and fast and the acknowledgement of her professional acting career, and when eventually Dame Angela Lansbury got her Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to drama, charitable work, and philanthropy. But previous to that award Dame Angela Lansbury was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours list and with these deserved awards Dame Angela Lansbury was thoroughly delighted and totally honoured and was also honoured to be in the same class as the other British actresses like Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA and Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE and Dame Angela Lansbury was totally dedicated to the British stage. Dame Angela Lansbury is a massive gay icon for her TV series appearance in “Murder, She Wrote” and of course all the musicals the actress has appeared in, and was a great role model for younger actresses, also where other actresses had very lean period of work, Dame Angela Lansbury never stopped working and was able to reach out and speak to many communities, and because of her charming personality, Dame Angela Lansbury will go on being loved, despite her death in 2022, and at that point this featurette by Lucy Bolton dedication to Dame Angela Lansbury ends.
Special Feature: Original Opening and Closing Titles [1948] [480i] [1.37:1] [2:28] With this featurette, we get to view the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Liberty Films opening and closing titles for the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’ Sadly, the quality is not very good.
Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer [1948] [480i] [1.37:1] [2:54] With this featurette, we get to view the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’ Sadly, once again the quality is not very good.
Special Feature: Image Gallery: With this featurette, we get to view 83 of some wonderful 1080p black-and-white promotional and publicity material images relayed to the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’
BONUS: Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay on the film entitled LIFE, LIBERTY, AND FRANK CAPRA by Raquel Stecher [2023], archival interviews with director Frank Capra entitled CAPRA LIVES HIS MOVIE TITLE ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’ by Jay Carmody [2023], archival set reports entitled CAPRA SHOOTS FOR PICTURE REFLECTING ISSUES OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN by Philip K. Scheuer [1947], article entitled HEPBURN, MENJOU AND HUAC by Jeff Billington [2023], an overview of contemporary critical responses entitled CRITICAL RESPONSE. Full film credits. Lots of Black-and-White photographs related to the film ‘STATE OF THE UNION.’
Finally, ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ [1948] is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Harold Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and with supporting turns from Dame Angela Lansbury and Adolphe Menjou, film ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ is a brilliant blend of political satire and romantic comedy. By today's standards, ‘STATE OF THE UNION’ is probably too talky to some, but not me, as Frank Capra often has big monologues in his films, but they're always delivered powerfully and here with no exception. It is a rousing film about the breakdown of idealism before political realities. This is my favourite Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn film and one of my favourite Frank Capra films. I recommend reading Frank Capra's out-of-print biography, “The Name Above the Title” for the interesting story of the reaction to this film by official Washington in 1948. Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
