Believing that Hayworth""s sexy screen image (after her success inGilda (1946)) was tarnished forever with her role in the film as a wicked and evil emptress, studio chief Harry Cohn was also incensed to find that his reigning, top box-office star""s magnificent auburn hair was bobbed, waved and bleached blonde for the film.A title sets the location and time: "Miami, Florida, Three-Twenty P.M., April the Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six..." The film begins with a closeup of a hand holding a camera with a flashbulb.The camera then pans across a group of reporters and photographers who are lined up outside the door of the U.It""s a very mean and nasty place, and I don""t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.It all pointed to a cop, or ex-cop -- Travis, who was making illegal profits, and laundering the money through his desert housing project/development.S.SENATE," "BOYS"" CLUBS OF STATE ELATED," and "SMITH APPOINTMENT POLITICAL SURPRISE."Wide-eyed innocent idealist, earnest youth leader, and naive country boy, Jefferson Smith is appointed to Congress as a junior Senator by his state""s corrupt political machine to complete he few months left in the dead senator""s term.