Lincoln in the White House (1939)

Directors

William C. McGann

Cast

Dickie Moore, Earl Dwire, Edward LeSaint, Erville Alderson, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ian Wolfe, John Harron, Nana Bryant, Raymond Brown

The story

The film begins with Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) delivering part of his presidential inaugural speech in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1861. The next scene, six weeks later, is in the White House, where the president is talking with his wife Mary (Nana Bryant). Suddenly their young son Tad (Dickie Moore) and Lincoln's assistant John Hay (John Harron) rush in to report that Confederate forces had bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

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