Who played the title role in the 1939 film ‘Young Mr Lincoln’?
"Young Mr. Lincoln Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 American biographical drama film about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted takes for fear the studio would use them in the film. Screenwriter Lamar Trotti was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story. In 2003, ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant""."
"singer. She received her first film role, uncredited, in 1934. From 1936 through 1945 she would receive steady acting roles. She began receiving credited roles in larger productions, and starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film ""The Californian"", and that same year she starred opposite Tyrone Power in ""Second Honeymoon"". From 1938 through 1945 she had twenty seven starring roles in films, some of which were B movies. The most notable film role was her role in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939), which also starred Henry Fonda and Alice Brady. Some of her more recognizable roles from that seven-year period"
"Raymond Massey repeating his tour-de-force performance as Lincoln struggling with the decision to fight slavery, in which he had triumphed on Broadway. Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon in her screen debut, starred with him, and Cromwell himself played the part of the abolitionist radical, John Brown. Once again, Cromwell's directorial skills brought his leading actor an Oscar nomination in what would be the most famous role of Massey's life, but neither Massey nor James Wong Howe, nominated for his work in the black-and-white category, won. The film also jostled with John Ford's ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939), covering much of the"
"Abraham Lincoln (1930 film) Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's ""Abraham Lincoln"", is a 1930 Pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. Her first speaking role was in a short film, ""Love's Old Sweet Song"" (1923) filmed in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem ""John Brown's Body,"" and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by"
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film) Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States. The film stars Raymond Massey and Howard Da Silva, who revived their roles from the original Broadway production of ""Abe Lincoln in Illinois"" playing Abe Lincoln and Jack Armstrong respectively. Herbert Rudley, who had portrayed Seth Gale in the play, also repeated his role in the film version. This film was the screen acting debut of Ruth Gordon as Mary Todd Lincoln."
"the nod for the lead role in ""You Only Live Once"" (1937), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang. He was a critical success opposite Bette Davis, who had picked him, in the film ""Jezebel"" (1938). This was followed by the title role in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939), his first collaboration with director John Ford, and that year he played Frank James in ""Jesse James"" (1939). Another 1939 film was ""Drums Along the Mohawk"", also directed by Ford. Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play Tom Joad in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel ""The Grapes"
"The cast was as follows: Robert Wilson as General Lee, Giuseppe Sabbatini as Garibaldi, Laurie Anderson as the Young Mrs. Lincoln, Denyce Graves as the older Mrs. Lincoln and the Earth Mother, Zheng Zhou as Abraham Lincoln, Sondra Radvanovsky as the Snow Owl and Alcmene, and Stephen Morscheck as Hercules. The Morgan State University Choir sang under the direction of Dr. Nathan Carter. Premiered in 1983. The production echoed the look of Dutch landscapes and included such characters and images as Mata Hari, Queen Wilhelmina, William the Silent, cabbages, and tulips. Gavin Bryars was a principal composer for this section,"
"everyone in the cast"". The film was a box office success, and took in $4,480,000 in North American rentals. The Young Lions (film) The Young Lions is a 1958 American World War II film drama in black-and-white and CinemaScope from 20th Century Fox. The film, directed by Edward Dmytryk, is based upon the 1948 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. It stars Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. German ski instructor Christian Diestl is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity and social mobility to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army, becoming"
"such screen legends as leading ladies Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Vivien Leigh and the actors Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman, Maurice Chevalier, and Gary Cooper. His films include such classics as ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" (1937), ""The Four Feathers"" (1939), Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1941), ""And Then There Were None"" (1945) in which he played General Mandrake, and the 1949 remake of ""Little Women"" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh, in which he portrayed the aged grandfather of Laurie Lawrence, (played by a young Peter Lawford), who generously gives a piano to the frail"
"The Young Lions (film) The Young Lions is a 1958 American World War II film drama in black-and-white and CinemaScope from 20th Century Fox. The film, directed by Edward Dmytryk, is based upon the 1948 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. It stars Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. German ski instructor Christian Diestl is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity and social mobility to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army, becoming a lieutenant. Dissatisfied with police duty in Paris, he requests to be transferred and is assigned to the North"
"The Lincoln Conspiracy (film) The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 film directed by James L. Conway that dramatizes certain conspiracy theories concerning the 1865 assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The film, which was based on the 1977 book of the same name by David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier Jr., starred Robert Middleton as Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, John Dehner as Col. Lafayette C. Baker, Bradford Dillman as John Wilkes Booth, and John Anderson as Lincoln. The hypothesis of the film was that, far from being the work of the ringleader of a lonely band of"
"Raymond Massey Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian-American actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in ""Abe Lincoln in Illinois"" (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He also was well known for playing Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series ""Dr. Kildare"" (1961–1966). Today he is most often seen in his role as the malevolent Jonathan Brewster, who looks like Boris Karloff, and violently attacks anyone who mentions the resemblance, in ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944). Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son"
"a Phonofilm, ""Memories of Lincoln"", with 91-year-old Chauncey Depew giving his recollections of meeting Lincoln in person. Abraham Lincoln (1924 film short) Abraham Lincoln (1924) is a short film made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process . The film was directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Lee DeForest, is based on the 1918 play ""Abraham Lincoln"" by John Drinkwater, and stars Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln. McGlynn also played Lincoln in the play on Broadway. Although no copies of the film appear to have survived, some photographs have been preserved. In 1923, DeForest and Dawley produced a short Phonofilm, ""Lincoln,"
"falls victim to an illness that requires her to be tied to her bed, vicious and cannibalistic, 10-year-old Abe Lincoln (Brennen Harper) sees his father Thomas Lincoln (Kent Igleheart) commit suicide at her bedside. Taking up a scythe, the distraught young Abe tells his mother that he loves her before beheading her. He then joins others in his community in containing a local zombie outbreak. When an adult Abraham Lincoln (Bill Oberst Jr.) has become President of a fracturing United States, he is apprised of rumors concerning a prominent Confederate stronghold. He is told that a regiment of 30 men"
"Lincoln (miniseries) Lincoln, also known as Gore Vidal's Lincoln, is a 1988 American television miniseries starring Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Todd Lincoln, and Richard Mulligan as William H. Seward. It was directed by Lamont Johnson and was based on Gore Vidal’s novel. It covers the period from Lincoln’s election as President of the United States to the time of his assassination Lamont Johnson won an Emmy for directing ""Lincoln"". The miniseries was also nominated for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special, Outstanding Art Direction in a Miniseries or a Special, Outstanding Costume"
"""The Little Colonel"", starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore; John Ford's ""The Whole Town's Talking"", starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur; the 1937 version of ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer""; Frank Capra's classic ""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"", again with Jean Arthur, also starring James Stewart and Claude Rains; John Ford's classic ""The Grapes of Wrath"", adapted from the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck, and starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell; the iconic ""Citizen Kane"", directed by and starring Orson Welles; ""Cover Girl"" (1944) starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly; Capra's ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1947),"
"Lincoln (film) Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The film also features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting performances. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography ""Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln"", and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on his efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of"
"Francis Ford (actor) Francis Ford (born Francis Feeney, August 14, 1881 – September 5, 1953) was an American film actor, writer and director. He was the mentor and elder brother of film director John Ford. He also appeared in many of the latter's movies, including ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939) and ""The Quiet Man"" (1952). Francis Ford was born in Portland, Maine. He was the son of John A. Feeney, who was born in the village of Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland, on June 15, 1854. By 1878, John had moved to Portland, Maine, and opened a saloon, at 42 Center Street,"
"performance of Walter Huston in the lead role."" Film historian Melvyn Stokes found that ""Abraham Lincoln""'s episodic structure ""came at the cost of dramatic tension"" and suggested that the film's disappointing box office performance was due to its having ""nothing of major importance and relevance to say about its subject to moviegoers of Depression-era America."" ""Abraham Lincoln"" was the first sound film about the Civil War which veterans of that war could view. Abraham Lincoln (1930 film) Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's ""Abraham Lincoln"", is a 1930 Pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed"
"and son Frank Jr. (also an actor), preceded him in death. He is interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Frank McGlynn Sr. Frank McGlynn Sr. (October 26, 1866 – May 18, 1951) was an American stage and film actor who found success later in life playing Abraham Lincoln. McGlynn was born in San Francisco the eldest of two daughters and a son raised by Frank and Mary McGlynn. Census records indicate that McGlynn lost a younger brother (George b. 1869) sometime between 1870 and 1880. His father was second generation Irish from New York who supported his family"
"the sadistic Justin LaMotte, Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, Gene Kelly as Bent's father Senator Charles Edwards, Robert Mitchum as Colonel Patrick Flynn, M.D., Johnny Cash as abolitionist John Brown, Jean Simmons as Orry's mother Clarissa Main, Mitchell Ryan as Orry's father Tillet Main, John Anderson as George's father William Hazard, Jonathan Frakes as George's older brother Stanley Hazard, Inga Swenson as George's mother Maude Hazard, Robert Guillaume as abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Morgan Fairchild as Burdetta Halloran, David Ogden Stiers as Congressman Sam Greene, and Olivia Cole as Madeline's devoted but doomed servant Maum Sally. John Jakes' wife Rachel also"
"The movie was adapted by Grover Jones and Robert E. Sherwood from Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title. It was directed by John Cromwell. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Raymond Massey) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (James Wong Howe). Abe Lincoln (Raymond Massey) leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offutt (Harlan Briggs) to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat gets stuck at a dam at the settlement of New Salem, Abe sees and"
"in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford saying of Wayne's future in film: ""He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.'"" ""Stagecoach"" marked the beginning of the most consistently successful phase of Ford's career—in just two years between 1939 and 1941 he created a string of classics films that won numerous Academy Awards. Ford's next film, the biopic ""Young Mr Lincoln"" (1939) starring Henry Fonda, was less successful than ""Stagecoach"", attracting little critical attention and winning no awards. It was not a major box-office hit although it had a respectable domestic"
"The Young Mr. Pitt The Young Mr. Pitt is a 1942 British biographical film of the life of William Pitt the Younger and in particular his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon. It was directed by Carol Reed and stars Robert Donat, Robert Morley and John Mills. Made in black-and-white, it was produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer for the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox. It was filmed as the Second World War was raging. Similar parallels with the struggle against Hitler's Germany were implied in ""That Hamilton Woman"" (aka ""Lady Hamilton"", 1941), made by Alexander Korda in"
"Beery, Sr. His subsequent exposure from the film landed him a contract with Pathé studios. Quillan would remain a popular leading and secondary actor throughout the sound film era and would appear in such notable films as 1935's ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone, 1939's ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" opposite Henry Fonda and Alice Brady, as 'Connie Rivers' in John Ford's 1940 film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" opposite Henry Fonda, in 1943's ""Alaska Highway"" and ""It Ain't Hay"" opposite the comedic duo Abbott and Costello. Quillan's breezy screen personality"
"his parents, Nancy (Robin McLeavy) and Thomas (Joseph Mawle), who work at a plantation owned by Jack Barts (Marton Csokas). There, Lincoln rushes to the aid of his friend, a young black boy, William Johnson (Curtis Harris), being beaten by a slaver. Because of his son's actions, Thomas is fired. That night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack Nancy. She falls ill the following day, and dies shortly afterwards. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned Nancy. Nine years later, in 1827, a vengeful 18 year old Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) tries to kill Barts at the docks, but"
"December 1939 after 472 performances. Directed by Elmer Rice, it starred Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Muriel Kirkland (Mary Todd), utledge), and Albert Phillips (Stephen A. Douglas). It subsequently transferred to the Grand Opera House in Chicago where it ran for 12 weeks from January 8 through March 30, 1940. Massey's role in the play came about as the result of a promise he had made to Sherwood six years previously to ""be there when he needed me"". It was the first production of the newly established Playwrights' Company. The play has twice been revived on stage. In 1963 Hal Holbrook"
"Czechoslovakia the play was broadcast on radio on November 8, 1937. Directed by Miloslav Jares, the production starred Frantisek Salzer in the role of Abraham Lincoln. ""Abraham Lincoln"" was adapted as the sixth episode of the CBS Radio series ""The Mercury Theatre on the Air"", broadcast August 15, 1938. The cast included Orson Welles (Abraham Lincoln), Ray Collins (Grant), Edward Jerome (General Lee) George Coulouris (Hook), Joseph Cotten (Seward), Carl Frank (Scott), Karl Swenson (Hay), William Alland (Dennis) and Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Lincoln). On May 26, 1952, the play was presented on television on the anthology series ""Studio One"". Starring"
"Streets of New York (1939 film) Streets of New York is a 1939 American film directed by William Nigh. The film is also known as The Abe Lincoln of Ninth Avenue, and The Abraham Lincoln of the 4th Avenue. ""Jimmy"" (Jackie Cooper) and crippled ""Gimpy"" (Martin Spellman) run the corner newsstand. Spike (David Durand), a neighbourhood delinquent, doesn’t like it, on his turf, and does everything he can to get them into trouble, and disrupt their circulation. When they get in trouble, Judge Carroll (George Irving) tries to help them out. He doesn’t want Jimmy going bad, like his big"
"sister Kathy. Cromwell as Kit was later replaced by Bill Henry. Rounding out the cast were Robert Cummings and Gale Gordon. In the late 1930s, Cromwell appeared in ""Storm Over Bengal"", for Republic Pictures, in order to capitalize on the success of ""The Lives of a Bengal Lancer."" Aside from the aforementioned standout roles in ""Jezebel"" and ""The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"", Cromwell did another notable turn as defendant Matt Clay to Henry Fonda's title-performance in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939). During this period, Cromwell was continuing to enjoy the various invitations coming his way as a member of the"
"of the more frequently heard performers, in such diverse parts as Nero, Blackbeard, Pat Garrett and King Arthur. Other performers, and the villains and victims they portrayed, included Jack Kruschen (as William Burke and Trotsky assassin Ramón Mercader), Jay Novello (as William Hare and Dr. William Palmer), Mary Jane Croft (as Bathsheba Spooner and Madame de Brinvilliers), Betty Lou Gerson (as Agrippina and Lucrezia Borgia), Edgar Barrier (as Julius Caesar), Harry Bartell (as Brutus), Hans Conried (as Ali Pasha), Herb Butterfield (as Lincoln, Trotsky, and Thomas Edwin Bartlett), Jack Edwards (as John Wilkes Booth and Cole Younger), Irene Tedrow (as"
"E.K. Lincoln Edward Kline Lincoln (August 8, 1884 - January 9, 1958) was an American silent film actor and director. Lincoln appeared in over 65 silent films and was best known for movies like ""For the Freedom of the World"" (1917), ""The Light in the Dark"" (1922), and ""Man of Courage"" (1922). E.K. Lincoln was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and died in Malibu, California. The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey was the motion picture capital of America. The Grantwood Studio, aka E.K.Lincoln"
"with the Wind""), contemporary affairs (""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" and ""Of Mice and Men""), love stories, classic novels (""Wuthering Heights""), fantasies/musicals, (""The Wizard of Oz""), tragic plays (""Dark Victory""), westerns (""Stagecoach""), and comedies (""Ninotchka""). Each of the five nominees for Best Director of 1939 went on to become a legendary film director with multiple acclaimed films to his credit: Frank Capra, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Sam Wood, and William Wyler. These figures, as reported in the ""Box Office Digest"" of March 1940, are not necessarily the sums that were taken in during 1939 – and in particular for films"