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    The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

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    1965     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 30min

    The life of the wife and widow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is told through still photographs and newsreel footage. Born to a domineering mother and an alcoholic father, Eleanor Roosevelt is a shy, homely child who finds it difficult to fit into the social milieu of turn-of-the-century New York. After marriage to her fifth cousin, however, her life changes; she raises a family, contemplates the suffering undergone during the First World War, and encourages her husband, after he contracts polio and is permanently crippled, to enter politics. Eleanor Roosevelt is ever-present as her husband becomes Governor of New York and then President of the United States; after his death, she continues her active involvement in politics and the humanities--traveling the world, fighting McCarthyism, and overseeing the passage of the Declaration of Human Rights through the United Nations.

    Directed byRichard Kaplan
    Written byArchibald Macleish
    CompanyAllied Artists PicturesAllied Artists PicturesAllied Artists Pictures

    Featuring

    Eric Sevareid
    Archibald Macleish
    Corinne Alsop Cole
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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