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Wilson is a american film of genre Drama directed by Otto Brower released in USA on 1 august 1944 with Charles Coburn
Wilson (1944)
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Add to a movie listWilson is a 1944 American biographical film in Technicolor about American President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
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The story begins in 1909, a time when Wilson (Alexander Knox) is best known as the head of Princeton University and the author of several books on the democratic process. Urged into running for Governor of New Jersey by the local political machine, Wilson soon proves that he is his own man, beholden to no one-and that he is dedicated to the truth at any cost.Actors
Charles Coburn
(Professor Henry Holmes)
Alexander Knox
(Woodrow Wilson)
Geraldine Fitzgerald
(Edith Bolling Galt)
Thomas Mitchell
(Joseph Tumulty)
Cedric Hardwicke
(Senator Henry Cabot Lodge)
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