Frank Capra's STATE OF THE UNION

[Ray Faiola]

For those who might be interested, here are the original 1948 MGM titles to Frank Capra's STATE OF THE UNION. After the original release, rights reverted to Capra and he reissued it under the Liberty Films banner. The remade titles also misspelled Katharine Hepburn's name (as "Katherine"). Also significant is that the original release did NOT include the portion of the scene in Kay Thorndyke's office where her editors resign en masse. I've included the original cutting of that sequence on the video, followed by the original Liberty Bell end title (title was changed and music was cut in the reissue).

[BudAbbott]

Thanks for posting this. I've always found STATE OF THE UNION Capra's most underappreciated movie; it's particularly interesting as a postscript to the DEEDS/SMITH/DOE trilogy.

Also interesting how clumsy the editing in that office scene looks without the editors section... must have been a last-minute decision to pull it, otherwise Hornbeck would certainly have made a smoother job of it.