Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Articles

Raquel Welch will join Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies this spring to present four of her favorite films in TCM's "Guest Programmer" series on Thursday, April 1. Welch will discuss Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall's To Have and Have Not, in addition to a couple of films featuring strong-willed women: George Cukor's Adam's Rib, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes [...]

Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era — in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century — is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of September. What would I recommend? Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I'd say check him out in The Invisible Man and [...]

A newly restored print of Frank Capra's 1939 Best Picture nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, and Claude Rains, will be screened tonight, July 20, as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, [...]