Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

by Frank Capra, Lewis R. Foster, A. L. Schafer

$650 · Offered by Royal Books

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer, and very faint Approved stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate, then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional, shallow egotists, the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany,

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