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Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and film producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Sidney Buchman. Writer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The son of a Russian émigré clothing merchant, Sidney Buchman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 27 1902. He initially attended the University of Minnesota.
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Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Aug 25, 1975 · Sidney Buchman, film producer and scenarist, who wrote the screenplay for “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring James Stewart, in 1939, died Saturday in Cannes, France, where he had...
Sidney Buchman. Writer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The son of a Russian émigré clothing merchant, Sidney Buchman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 27 1902. He initially attended the University of Minnesota. After his family moved to New York, he continued his studies at Columbia University, graduating in 1923.
- IT WAS MEANT TO BE A SEQUEL TO MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN. Initially, director Rouben Mamoulian bought the rights to Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, "The Gentleman From Montana" (known elsewhere as "The Gentleman from Wyoming"), for $1500, which he then sold to Columbia Studios chief Harry Cohn at the same price in exchange for the chance to direct another movie.
- FRANK CAPRA HAD TO DEAL WITH SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES. Because he wanted to rely on natural reaction shots in the three-tiered Senate chamber, which was recreated on a sound stage exactly as it was in Washington, D.C., Capra needed to employ what was then a unique multiple-camera, multiple-sound approach so that he could shoot multiple scenes before moving all of the filming equipment somewhere else.
- JIMMY STEWART CALLED IT "THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME." Having declared the part "the role of a lifetime," Stewart was determined to make sure he completed the film.
- STEWART WAS GIVEN PERFORMANCE-DIMINISHING CHEMICALS. To make his voice hoarse, as if he really had been filibustering for 23 hours, Capra wrote that, "Twice a day Jimmy's throat was swabbed with vile mercury solution that swelled and irritated his vocal cords.
Sidney Buchman wrote, alone or in collaboration, some of the best socially oriented screenplays in the American cinema, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Talk of the Town , managing to make his messages palatable to audiences in the guise of entertainment.
