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Overview
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Writer:
Lamar Trotti (screenplay)
Release Date:
August 1945 (USA)
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Tagline:
DRAMA AND SPECTACLE UNPARALLELED! ENTERTAINMENT UNDREAMED OF! 12,000 PLAYERS! 200 MIGHTY SCENES! TOLD TO THE TUNE OF 87 BELOVED SONGS! (original ad - all caps)
Plot:
A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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5 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
The Great Emancipator Set for the Silver Screen
(From Beyond Hollywood. 16 September 2009, 12:17 AM, PDT)
Welles Discovery Ford Dead At 98
(From WENN. 17 August 2009, 2:56 PM, PDT)
(From Beyond Hollywood. 16 September 2009, 12:17 AM, PDT)
Welles Discovery Ford Dead At 98
(From WENN. 17 August 2009, 2:56 PM, PDT)
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Wonderful, breathtaking film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charles Coburn | ... | Professor Henry Holmes |
 | Geraldine Fitzgerald | ... | Edith Bolling Galt |
| Thomas Mitchell | ... | Joseph Tumulty |
| Ruth Nelson | ... | Ellen Wilson |
| Cedric Hardwicke | ... | Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) |
 | Vincent Price | ... | William Gibbs McAdoo |
| William Eythe | ... | George Felton |
| Mary Anderson | ... | Eleanor Wilson |
| Ruth Ford | ... | Margaret Wilson |
| Sidney Blackmer | ... | Josephus Daniels |
| Madeleine Forbes | ... | Jessie Wilson |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Dr. Cary Grayson |
| Eddie Foy Jr. | ... | Eddie Foy |
| Charles Halton | ... | Colonel House |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones |
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154 min
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Color (Technicolor) |
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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The film, a pet project and labor of love for producer Darryl F. Zanuck, was a notorious box-office flop in its day, despite good reviews and several Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor, and despite the fact that when it played the Roxy in New York, it grossed more than any one movie had in a single theatre up to then. Zanuck was so heartbroken over the movie's failure that he forbade anyone who came into his presence to ever mention the film again.
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Anachronisms: In the scene where Wilson's cabinet is meeting to discuss the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915, a map of Europe on the wall plainly shows numerous countries and borders, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic States, that came into being only after World War I.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in History Brought to Life (1950)
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I have seen this film dozens of times and it never ceases to amaze me. Alexander Knox is wonderful as the college professor-turned politician who tried to keep the US of A out of World War I. I would recommend this to any history buff or anyone that likes documentaries.