The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
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Richard Kaplan
Eric Severeid
Archibald Macleish
Mrs. Francis Cole
Miriam Arsham
Eckstein-stone
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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.
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Voted Best English Language Film of the Year by the 1965 National Board of Review.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films for 1965 by the New York Times Film Critics.
Released in United States Fall November 8, 1965
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Opened in New York City on November 8, 1965.
Released in United States Fall November 8, 1965
