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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Overview
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln’s life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Walter Huston | Una Merkel | William L. Thorne | Lucille La Verne | Helen Freeman | Otto Hoffman | Edgar Dearing | Russell Simpson | Charles Crockett | Kay Hammond | Helen Ware | E. Alyn Warren | Jason Robards Sr. | Gordon Thorpe | Ian Keith | Cameron Prud'Homme | James Bradbury Sr. | James Eagles | Oscar Apfel | Frank Campeau | Hobart Bosworth | Henry B. Walthall | Hank Bell | Maurice Black | Ed Brady | Robert Brower | Kernan Cripps | Mary Forbes | Francis Ford | Robert Homans | Jane Keckley | Robert Keith | Henry Kolker | Ralph Lewis | George MacQuarrie | Scott Seaton | Carl Stockdale | Harry Stubbs | Kathrin Clare Ward