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(Redirected from The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln)
Abraham Lincoln | |
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Directed by | Phil Rosen |
Produced by | Al Rockett Ray Rockett |
Written by | Frances Marion (story and screenplay) |
Starring | George A. Billings Ruth Clifford Irene Hunt Louise Fazenda |
Music by | Joseph Carl Breil |
Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening Robert Kurrle |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Associated First National |
Release date |
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120 minutes (12 reels); 150 minutes (15 reels) at NYC premiere | |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Lincoln is a 2012 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 Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln is a 1924 American feature film directed by Phil Rosen and written by Frances Marion.[1] By the date of release, the film's title was shortened to Abraham Lincoln, since the previous title was regarded as cumbersome.[2]
Cast[edit]
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- George A. Billings as Abraham Lincoln
- Danny Hoy as Lincoln as a boy
- Ruth Clifford as Ann Rutledge
- Irene Hunt as Nancy Hanks Lincoln
- Fay McKenzie as Sarah Lincoln
- Westcott Clarke as Thomas Lincoln
- Charles K. French as Isom Enlow
- William J. Humphrey as Stephen A. Douglas
- A. Edward Sutherland as William Scott (billed as Eddie Sutherland)
- Louise Fazenda as Sally
- William F. Moran as John Wilkes Booth
- Walter Rogers as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- James Welch as Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Willis Marks as Secretary of State William H. Seward
- Fred Kohler as New Orleans slave auctioneer
- Pat Hartigan as Jack Armstrong
- Otis Harlan as Denton Offutt
- Jules Hanft as James Rutledge
- Julia Hesse as Mrs. Rutledge
- Robert Bolder as country politician
- William McIllwain as Dr. Allen
- Robert Milasch as Southern planter
- George Reehm as Southern planter
- Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Ninian Edwards, Mary’s sister
- Mickey Moore as Willie Lincoln
- Newton Hall as Tad Lincoln
- Francis Powers as Richard J. Oglesby
- Homer Willits as John Hay, Lincoln’s secretary
- Jim Blackwell as Tom
- Frances Raymond as Scott’s mother
- Jack Rollings as Union sentry
- Merrill McCormick as corporal of the guard (billed as William McCormick)
- Frank Newburg as Bixby
- W. John Steppling as delegation chairman
- Wanda Crazer as dancer
- Alfred Allen as General George Meade
- Miles McCarthy as Major/General Robert Anderson
- Earl Schenck as Colonel Henry Rathbone
- Dolly McLean as Miss Harris
- Cordelia Callahan as Mrs. Surratt
- Dallas Hope as stable boy
- Dick Johnson as bartender
- Jack Winn as Ned Spangler
- Lawrence Grant as actor at Ford’s Theatre
- Ivy Livingston as actress at Ford’s Theatre
- Kathleen Chambers as actress at Ford’s Theatre
- Henry Rattenberry as stagehand
- W. L. McPheeters as Secret Service Chief Allan Pinkerton
- Nick Cogley as Secretary of War Simon Cameron
- Charles Smiley as Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase
- R. G. Dixon as Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
- Harry Kelsey as Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith
- Joseph Mills as Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair
- Fred Manly as Attorney-General Edward Bates
- William von Hardenburg as Attorney-General James Speed
- R. J. Duston as Postmaster-General William Dennison, Jr.
Awards[edit]
The movie won the Photoplay Medal of Honor for 1924 given out by Photoplay Magazine,[3] the most prestigious American film award of its time.
Preservation status[edit]
Incomplete prints of the film, including some color-tinted and color-toned footage, exist in various film archives, including the National Film and Sound Archive and the Library of Congress.[4]
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References[edit]
- ^IMDB entry
- ^''Abraham Lincoln' To Be Title of Picture'. Exhibitors Herald. January 19, 1924. p. 33. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
- ^'Awards for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^'The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln'. silentera.com.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abraham Lincoln (1924 film). |
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln on IMDb
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln at silentera.com
- Theatrical advert for the New Lyric Theater in November 1924, announcing the film, which shares dual space with Circe, the Enchantress with Mae Murray
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