
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Cast

Spencer Tracy
Grant Matthews

Katharine Hepburn
Mary Matthews

Van Johnson
Spike McManus

Angela Lansbury
Kay Thorndyke

Adolphe Menjou
Jim Conover

Lewis Stone
Sam Thorndyke

Margaret Hamilton
Norah

Charles Dingle
Bill Nolard Hardy

Charles Lane
Blink Moran

Howard Smith
Sam I. Parrish

Irving Bacon
Buck Swenson

Maidel Turner
Lulubelle Alexander

Raymond Walburn
Judge Alexander

Ellen Ross
Secretary

Eve Whitney
Secretary

Arthur O'Connell
First Reporter

Frank Mayo
City Official

Tor Johnson
Wrestler

Patti Brady
Joyce Matthews
Georgie Nokes
Grant Matthews Jr.

Carl Switzer
Bellboy

Tom Fadden
Waiter

Tom Pedi
Barber
Jerry Schumacher
Newsreel Cameraman
Harry Anderson
Photographer (uncredited)

Stanley Andrews
Senator (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Assistant Cameraman (uncredited)

Eddie Kane
Television Prompter (uncredited)

Roger Moore
Photographer (uncredited)

Charles Sherlock
Photographer (uncredited)

Dave Willock
Pilot (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Crew

Frank Capra
Director, Producer

Anthony Veiller
Screenplay

Myles Connolly
Screenplay
William Hornbeck
Editor

George J. Folsey
Director of Photography

Irene
Costume Design

Victor Young
Original Music Composer

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Emile Kuri
Set Decoration
Eylla Jacobs
Script Supervisor
Howard Lindsay
Theatre Play
Russel Crouse
Theatre Play
Urie McCleary
Art Direction

Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
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