Advise and Consent (6-Jun-1962)
Director: Otto Preminger Writer: Wendell Mayes From novel: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury Music by: Jerry Fielding Producer: Otto Preminger Keywords: Drama, POTUS, Cold War, Blackmail, Gay, Mormons, Suicide, Washington DC Political drama concerning the confirmation of the President's choice of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell. Accusations fly in many directions, such as Leffingwell's alleged communist ties, and alleged homosexual experiences of the investigating committee chairman, Brigham Anderson. Preminger purchased the rights to Drury's novel for $200,000 and made this film outside of the Hays Code.
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CAST starring | Henry Fonda | ... Robert Leffingwell | Charles Laughton | ... Sen. Seabright Cooley | Don Murray | ... Sen. Brigham Anderson | Walter Pidgeon | ... Senate Majority Leader | Peter Lawford | ... Sen. Lafe Smith | Gene Tierney | ... Dolly Harrison | Franchot Tone | ... The President | Lew Ayres | ... The Vice President | Burgess Meredith | ... Herbert Gelman | Eddie Hodges | ... Johnny Leffingwell | Paul Ford | ... Sen. Stanley Danta | George Grizzard | ... Sen. Fred Van Ackerman | Inga Swenson | ... Ellen Anderson | | and the voice of | Frank Sinatra | ... Singing Voice (voice) | | co-starring | Edward Andrews | ... Sen. Orrin Knox | Paul McGrath | ... Hardiman Fletcher | Will Geer | ... Senate Minority Leader | Betty White | ... Sen. Bessie Adams | Tom Helmore | ... British Ambassador | Rene Paul | ... French Ambassador | Paul Stevens | ... Louis Newborn | Russ Brown | ... Night Watchman Mike | Malcolm Atterbury | ... Sen. Tom August | Janet Jane Carty | ... Pidge Anderson | Hilary Eaves | ... Lady Maudulayne | | Michele Montau | ... Celestine Barre | J. Edward McKinley | ... Sen. Powell Hanson | William Quinn | ... Sen. Paul Hendershot | Tiki Santos | ... Sen. Kanaho | Raoul De Leon | ... Sen. Velez | Chet Stratton | ... Rev. Carney Birch | Larry Tucker | ... Manuel | Bettie Johnson | ... Lafe's Girl | John Granger | ... Ray Shaff | Sid Gould | ... Bartender | Meyer Davis and His Orchestra | ... Themselves | Raj Mallick | ... Indian Ambassador | | White House Correspondents Assn | ... Themselves | White House Press Photographers Assn | ... Themselves | Irv Kupcinet | ... Journalist | Robert C. Wilson | ... Journalist | Alan Emory | ... Journalist | Jesse Stearns Buscher | ... Journalist | Milton Berliner | ... Journalist | Allen W. Crowley | ... Journalist | William Knighton | ... WHCA President | Guy M. Gilette | ... Sen. Harper | Henry F. Ashurst | ... Sen. McCafferty |
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