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U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > In Film and Literature The same set, updated to the 1960s, was used in Otto Preminger's 1962 classic film, Advise and Consent. The film was shot in and around Washington, D.C. and Capitol Hill, and featured a two-thirds scale exact replica of the Senate Chamber as it looked prior to renovations in 1950. In 2004, the Senate acquired one of the replica desks used in the film. www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/October_MrSmith.htm   (216 words)

Just How Gay Is the Right? - New York Times THE screen's first official gay bar," as it was labeled by the film historian Vito Russo, appeared in the 1962 political potboiler "Advise and Consent." Its most prominent visitor was a conservative United States senator. Their campaign menaces the country on a grander scale than Drury and Preminger ever could have imagined: it uses gay people as cannon fodder on the way to its greater goal of taking down a branch of government that is crucial to the constitutional checks and balances that "Advise and Consent" so powerfully extols. Today's judge-bashing firebrands often say that it isn't homosexuality per se that riles them, only the potential legalization of same-sex marriage by the courts. www.nytimes.com /2005/05/15/opinion/15rich.html?ex=1273809600&en=3f025755c4e8b282&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (564 words)

Policy Review: Allen Drury and the Washington Novel.@ HighBeam Research WHEN ALLEN DRURY DIED LAS YEAR on his 80th birthday, the thoughts of editors and obituary writers naturally turned to Advise and Consent, the book that made him famous, that gave a memorable last film role to Charles Laughton, and that in many ways invented a genre in fiction. Allen Drury's novel 'Advise and Consent' offered a definitive portrayal of Washington, D.C. His prose style was not admirable but had character and vividly evoked places. This book shares similar concerns with Drury's later 'A Shade of Difference' and 'Capable of Honor.' www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:58253205&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (177 words)

Amazon.com: Advise and Consent (1962): DVD Allen Drury's 1959 novel about Washington infighting during the confirmation hearings over a tainted Secretary of State candidate was a sensation in its day -- the Pulitzer winner remains the second-longest-charting title on the New York Times best-seller list. Drury's deeply cynical novel drew its power through its complex characterizations and its then shocking portrait of an American government dominated by self-interest and hypocricy. Otto Preminger's film version of Allen Drury's classic political novel was quite the event in 1962 but today, it all seems quite tame. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007TKNGK?v=glance   (2770 words)

Kevin McCarthy Biography The stage-trained McCarthy frequently appeared on Broadway throughout his career, notably as Jerry in "Two for the Seesaw" (1959) and Van Ackerman in "Advise and Consent" (1960). They're here!" That's the climax of the sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), and it's such a memorable moment that McCarthy has in recent years been hired on other films to spoof his own performance. The film assignment that won McCarthy the hearts of adolescent boys of all ages was his portrayal of Dr. Miles Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). www.body-snatchers.com /bio.html   (846 words)

DVD Verdict Review - Anatomy Of A Murder Advise and Consent (1962, Columbia) and criticism of the military in The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955, WB). He received Best Actor honours from both the New York Film Critics and Venice Film Festival for Anatomy of a Murder, as well as an Academy Award nomination. James Stewart is the main star of Anatomy of a Murder and the part of the small-town lawyer fits him like a glove. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/anatomymurder.php   (1297 words)

videolist.txt VCV 6333 Advertising alcohol [videorecording] : calling the shots / by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary VCV 3764 Advise & consent [videorecording] VCV 7280 Aegean [videorecording] : legacy of Atlantis / Time-Life Video and Television. VCV 6805 Black is-- black ain't [videorecording] : a personal journey through black identity / Independent Television VCV 5820 Black jazz and blues [videorecording] : 1929, 1935, 1945 : three all-black [film] shorts / with Bessie VCV 196 Black like me [videorecording]. VCV 6396 At the river I stand [videorecording] / a film by David Appleby, Allison Graham, Steven John Ross ; a VCV 5161 At the threshold [videorecording] / a co-production of Biniman Productions Limited... www.lib.iup.edu /depts/media_resources/videolist.txt   (1297 words)

Franklin J Schaffner He enjoyed success with his 1960 Broadway production of "Advise and Consent" and made his first feature film, "The Stripper"--adapted from a play by William Inge--in 1963.... Schaffner began his career as an assistant on "The March of Time" documentary series and directed over 150 TV plays, including the original broadcasts of "Twelve Angry Men" (1954) and "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1955). One of the leading directors of the "Golden Age"" of live TV who later proved himself a capable handler of both epic action features and intimate dramas. www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/196590   (304 words)

Franklin J Schaffner He enjoyed success with his 1960 Broadway production of "Advise and Consent" and made his first feature film, "The Stripper"--adapted from a play by William Inge--in 1963. Schaffner began his career as an assistant on "The March of Time" documentary series and directed over 150 TV plays, including the original broadcasts of "Twelve Angry Men" (1954) and "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1955). One of the leading directors of the "Golden Age"" of live TV who later proved himself a capable handler of both epic action features and intimate dramas. www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/196590   (293 words)

Biography for Burgess Meredith Meredith's film roles thinned out during the 1950s after he was considered an unfriendly witness during the McCarthy era, but he continued to do stage work (winning a Tony for directing "The Thurber Carnival"), returned to films in Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent (1962) and The Cardinal (1963), and thereafter never let up. Meredith also did a large amount of commercial work, serving as the voice for Skippy Peanut Butter and United Air Lines, among others. He directed and performed in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), a fascinating, seldom-seen thriller based on one of the popular "Maigret" novels by Georges Simenon. www.imdb.com /name/nm0580565/bio   (998 words)

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Nachos: Advise and Consent The political machinations in the movie are fascinating, but what's striking today is something taken for granted by the film's creators and original audience -- the Senate is not only allowed to have a say in presidential appointments, but they're supposed to make it difficult. (I heard CNN anchor Betty Nguyen mock Kerry this afternoon, smirking and referring to the Republican response as "giggling" at him, for instance.) True, I doubt the Democrats have the numbers to maintain the filibuster and keep Alito off the bench. The move has been roundly mocked by the Republicans and the media that parrots their point of view. studiodave.blogspot.com /2006/01/advise-and-consent.html   (1281 words)

NPR : The Best in Political Fiction Advise and Consent by Allen Drury: This timeless 1959 novel offers a depiction of the inner workings of Congress. For some of the best novels of biographical political fiction: Grant by Max Byrd, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Burr by Gore Vidal, and Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal. American Hero by Larry Beinhart: A dark romp through the underbelly of politics, American Hero was the basis for the film Wag the Dog. www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1890288   (431 words)

( A ) > Ayres, Lew Advise and Consent, an examination of deal making, party politics, and congressional diplomacy in Washington's legislative halls (based on the novel by Allen Drury), is one of his best. Preminger broke the blacklist with his previous film, Exodus, and it rings through in this drama about a controversial nominee for secretary of state (a confident, stately Henry Fonda) accused of being a Communist. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagey acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. www.dvdvan.com /list/DVD/411294/page-1.html   (867 words)

The DVD Journal Reviews: Advise and Consent Released as part of Warner Home Video's "Controversial Classics Collection," Advise and Consent comes in a beautiful black-and-white anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) with monaural DD audio. Meanwhile, Preminger resembled numerous directors from the 1940s, such as George Stevens and William Wyler, who had made their name in small comedies or genre films, but in the 1950s transitioned to epic dramas usually adapted from bestsellers or earlier hit films. Drury was a reporter-turned-pop novelist, and his perch as local observer gave his book the authenticity of a roman à clef. www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/a/adviseandconsent.q.shtml   (1001 words)

Otto Preminger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Notable films include Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart and Ben Gazzara, Advise and Consent with an on-form Charles Laughton, and Bonjour Tristesse with David Niven and Deborah Kerr. Otto Preminger died in 1986 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York. Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was a film director. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Preminger   (344 words)

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