Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is a
Theatrical release poster
Sen. Jefferson Smith and his aide Clarissa Saunders in a taxi with the Capitol dome lit up at night in the rear window
Smith pursues his filibuster in the Senate chamber before senators deliberately ignoring him.
Paine and Smith in the Senate, with Smith holding letters and telegrams demanding his resignation in the final scene
Dimitri Tiomkin
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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City a
Tiomkin, c. 1930s
With his mother, circa 1900
Army letter thanking Tiomkin