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Auction History Result 6k001 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON/HIS GIRL FRIDAY English trade ad 1940 Stewart, Grant, Arthur Date Sold 5/30/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage English Trade Ad (measures 11 1/4" x 17 1/4" [29 x 44 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the classic 1939 Frank Capra (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) political corruption politics romantic melodrama ("A great director creates his most heart-stirring human spectacle!"; "Capra's greatest hit --- the screen at its most inspired!"; "The greatest of all Capra hits!"; "Gayer than 'It Happened One Night', More Moving than 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town', More Tender than 'You Can't Take It With You'"; "Overwhelming... in its universal appeal!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a political innocent from the country who is appointed as a replacement senator, and he learns of political corruption, and tries to expose it, only to find that even the senator he most admires is in on the corruption) starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart; nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Jefferson Smith), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Senator Paine), Edward Arnold (as the corrupt businessman, Jim Taylor, who tells senators what to do), Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey Sr. (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as President of the Senate), Porter Hall, Jack Carson, Bobs Watson, and Astrid Allwyn AND Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday, the classic 1940 Howard Hawks newspaper journalism romantic comedy ("The year's most uproarious romance!"; "I DEMAND MY RIGHTS... Life... Liberty... and the Pursuit of Rosalind Russell!"; "Screen play by Charles Lederer"; "Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur"; "She learned about men from him!"; interestingly, this was a re-make of the classic 1931 newspaper movie, "The Front Page", except this movie had the very clever idea of re-casting one of the male leads as a female, and since the character in the original was named "Hildy Johnson", they were even able to keep the same name!) starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Marion Martin, John Qualen, Roscoe Karns, Cliff Edwards, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, and Helen Mack NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a great trade ad taken out of a Kinematograph Weekly English trade magazine (we have a number of them in this set of auctions, and also other English trade ads with various amounts of pages). Studios would run these elaborate ads in issues of this magazine, and they often had images not found on any of the regular movie posters (either English or U.S.). This trade ad was removed from a 1940 issue of this magazine, and it will look incredible displayed on the new owner's wall (but of course, the new owner will need to choose which of the two ads to display, because they are printed back to back). Condition: very good. The ad was removed from a magazine (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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