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Eleanor and Franklin is a american film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Petrie released in USA on 11 january 1976 with Edward Herrmann
Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
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Add to a movie listEleanor and Franklin (1976) is a television movie released on January 11, 1976, starring Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. It is the first part in a two-part biopic based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling biography with the same title. Joseph Lash was Eleanor's personal secretary and confidant. He wrote several books on the Roosevelts including some on both Eleanor and Franklin individually.
Directed by Daniel Petrie, the film follows the lives of President Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor told in flashback from her perspective after her husband's death, from the time they were children until his election to the presidency.
A second film was made which detailed Roosevelt's term as president (Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years) (1977).
The film won numerous awards, including 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and the Peabody Award. Daniel Petrie won the Emmy for best director, as he would again the next year with the White House years. The film is noted for being almost entirely historically accurate.
Actors
Edward Herrmann
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt, age 20-50)
Jane Alexander
(Eleanor Roosevelt, age 18-60)
Mark Harmon
Rosemary Murphy
(Sara Delano Roosevelt)
Blair Brown
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