The Senator Was Indiscreet

The Senator Was Indiscreet

The Senator Was Indiscreet is a 1947 comedy film directed by George S. Kaufman starring William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the detailed diary he has kept about all the political misdeeds of his colleagues. Powell won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performances in this film and in Life with Father. The film also was known as Mr. Ashton Was Indiscreet (see photo).

Genre: Comedy
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1947
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Lew Gibson:
[to the Indian chiefs] Now, remember, you're Indians.

Houlihan:
[to Ashton] No member of the party has the right to deny he is not a candidate unless he is a candidate.

Senator Melvin G. Ashton:
[to Houlihan] Owning a nice little diary is like owning a nice little atom bomb. Even if you don't do anything with it, it's a comfort to know it's there.

Lew Gibson:
[to Poppy] You can't go around quoting politicians correctly! That's dirty journalism and you know it!

Senator Melvin G. Ashton:
There's one thing you can't say about me, Fred, I have never put one man or woman on the public payroll who was not my own blood kin-or Mrs. Ashton's, anyway.

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