Advise & Consent (D.C. Onscreen, Part 1)

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We're kicking off our series on DC Onscreen with a look at the romance of Otto Preminger's 1962 Senate drama Advise & Consent!

Join in as we discuss the movie's deployment of star Henry Fonda, the tension between Preminger's liberalism and Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning novel, and the real-life incidents that inspired the story.

Plus: What stunt castings did Preminger want (and get) for the movie? How effective is its then-controversial depiction of gay people? And, most importantly, is Gene Tierney's Dolly Harrison the coolest woman we'll see in this series?

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Next week: D.C. Cab (1983) - available here via the Internet Archive!

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Key sources and links for this episode:

• Bosley Crowther's review of Advise & Consent (New York Times)
• "Hollywood's Biggest Washington Movie Goofs" (Washingtonian Magazine)
• "Otto Preminger, 1960-1979 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 7)" (You Must Remember This)
• "1961: Starring Martin Luther King, Jr. (And Henry Fonda)" (New York Times)
• "Just How Gay is the Right?" by Frank Rich (New York Times)
• "Allen Drury and the Washington Novel" (Hoover Institute)
• "Uniquely Nasty: The Blockbuster Novel that Haunted Gay Washington" (Yahoo News)
• "The 1959 Novel that Convinced a Young Barney Frank Not to Come Out" (Washington Post)
• "Trump Allies Pressure GOP Senators to Back Cabinet Picks - Or Else" (Washington Post)
• "The Week Trump Finally Broke the Senate" (Politico)
• "Takeaways from Doug Liman's Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary" (Washington Post)