Advise & Consent
Are the men and women of Washington really like this?
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Cast
Cay Forester
President's Secretary (uncredited)
Al McGranary
Senator (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Senate Staff Clerk (uncredited)
Walter Pidgeon
Senate Majority Leader
Eddie Hodges
Johnny Leffingwell
Jeffrey Sayre
Senate Staff Clerk (uncredited)
George Grizzard
Senator Fred van Ackerman
Inga Swenson
Ellen Anderson
Betty White
Senator Bessie Adams
Roger Clark
Senator (uncredited)
Bernard Sell
Senator (uncredited)
Bill Quinn
Senator Paul Hendershot
Eddie Baker
Senator (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Senate Official (uncredited)
Don Murray
Senator Brigham Anderson
Kenner G. Kemp
Senate Chamber Reporter (uncredited)
Scoop Jackson
Drink Refuser (uncredited)
Henry Fonda
Robert Leffingwell
Malcolm Atterbury
Senator Tom August
Sid Gould
Bartender
Burgess Meredith
Herbert Gelman
Michele Montau
Celestine Barre
Gene Tierney
Dolly Harrison
Leoda Richards
Senator (uncredited)
Peter Lawford
Senator Lafe Smith
Paul Stevens
Louis Newborn
Sol Murgi
Senator (uncredited)
Franchot Tone
The President
Frank Sinatra
Self (voice)
Paul Ford
Senator Stanley Danta
Edward Andrews
Senator Orrin Knox
Tom Helmore
British Ambassador
Russ Brown
Night Watchman Mike
Charles Laughton
Senator Seabright Cooley
Will Geer
Senate Minority Leader
Larry Tucker
Manuel
Stephen Soldi
Senate Gallery Spectator (uncredited)
Lew Ayres
The Vice President
Paul McGrath
Hardiman Fletcher