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Wilson

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The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.

Release Date : 1944-08-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century FoxDarryl F. Zanuck Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Woodrow Wilson

Original Name : Alexander Knox

Gender : Male

Character Name : Edith Bolling Galt

Original Name : Geraldine Fitzgerald

Gender : Female

Character Name : Joseph Tumulty

Original Name : Thomas Mitchell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ellen Wilson

Original Name : Ruth Nelson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

Original Name : Cedric Hardwicke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Professor Henry Holmes

Original Name : Charles Coburn

Gender : Male

Character Name : William Gibbs McAdoo

Original Name : Vincent Price

Gender : Male

Character Name : George Felton

Original Name : William Eythe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eleanor Wilson

Original Name : Mary Anderson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Margaret Wilson

Original Name : Ruth Ford

Gender : Female

Character Name : Josephus Daniels

Original Name : Sidney Blackmer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jessie Wilson

Original Name : Madeleine Forbes

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Cary Grayson

Original Name : Stanley Ridges

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eddie Foy

Original Name : Eddie Foy Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonel House

Original Name : Charles Halton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones

Original Name : Thurston Hall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Premier Georges Clemenceau

Original Name : Marcel Dalio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Helen Bones

Original Name : Katherine Locke

Gender : Female

Character Name : Robert Lansing, Secretary of State

Original Name : Stanley Logan

Gender : Male

Character Name : William Jennings Bryan

Original Name : Edwin Maxwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judge Westcott (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul Everton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Edward Sullivan

Original Name : J.M. Kerrigan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Beeker

Original Name : James Rennie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prime Minister David Lloyd George

Original Name : Clifford Brooke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Count Von Bernstorff

Original Name : Tonio Selwart

Gender : Male

Character Name : Senator Watson

Original Name : John Ince

Gender : Male

Character Name : Senator Bromfield

Original Name : Charles Miller

Gender : Male

Character Name : Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Douglas Fairbanks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Legislator in Wilson's Office (uncredited)

Original Name : John Hamilton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reporter (uncredited)

Original Name : Ian Wolfe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hughes Campaign Orator in Maine (uncredited)

Original Name : Will Wright

Gender : Male

Character Name : Missouri Delegate (uncredited)

Original Name : Eddie Borden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Italian Restaurant Waiter (uncredited)

Original Name : Gino Corrado

Gender : Male

Character Name : Princeton Team Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : John Davidson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reporter (uncredited)

Original Name : Edward Earle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Orator (uncredited)

Original Name : Sam Flint

Gender : Male

Character Name : Minor Role (uncredited)

Original Name : William Forrest

Gender : Male

Character Name : White House Usher (uncredited)

Original Name : Reed Hadley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Smith (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Orth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chairman of Democratic Committee (uncredited)

Original Name : Emory Parnell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ike Hoover - Chief White House Butler (uncredited)

Original Name : Roy Roberts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Minor Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Ralph Sanford

Gender : Male

Character Name : German Delegate (uncredited)

Original Name : William Yetter Sr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Secretary (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Carter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Redfield (uncredited)

Original Name : Gladden James

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited)

Original Name : Walter Baldwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reporter (uncredited)

Original Name : Lester Dorr

Gender : Male

Character Name : William McCombs (uncredited)

Original Name : George Macready

Gender : Male

Reviews

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@Geronimo1967

2022-06-30

Had they been contemporaries, one might be forgiven for thinking that Daryll F. Zanuck owed Woodrow Wilson quite a sum of money. The 28th President could hardly have written a more favourable biopic, had he penned it himself. Oscar nominated Alexander Knox is superbly cast, though, in this depiction of the rise of the academic, principled fellow to the White House. Insofar as history in concerned, however - it is pretty factually "loose", somewhat fanciful, and though an interesting assessment of America's leader during the latter stages of WWI - clearly a man of ideals and vision - the only thing it doesn't credit him with is the invention of the wheel. The production looks terrific. especially at the beginning when we are exposed to the hustings of his gubernatorial and then presidential campaigns, when the film is lively and energetic (assisted ably by Alfred Newman's score). Once ensconced in office, the pace slows to that of a snail in a bowl of treacle, and the melodrama of his rather tragic personal life ensures the story just becomes quite dull - more of a rose-tinted chronology. Brief interventions from Sir Cedric Hardwicke as arch-opponent Senator John Cabot Lodge help occasionally, but this is essentially a kindly, very long, retrospective on a man that is pretty much entirely intended for domestic, and sympathetic, consumption.