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TV-movie |
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biography/drama |
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120 minutes,
including commercials (USA)
104 minutes, CBS TV (acc. to Variety)
97 minutes, Encore-True Stories Library print (USA)
VIDEO
96 minutes (USA) |
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USA: Certificate 'G', MPAA |
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USA - May 12, 1982 |
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| PRODUCTION |
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USA |
| production |
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Murbill
production in association with Embassy Television |
| executive
producer |
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Virginia
L. Carter |
| screenplay |
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Caryl
Ledner,
Rhoda Lerman (story),
Cynthia Whitcomb (as Cynthia Mandelberg) |
| narrator
epilogue |
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Curtis
Roosevelt |
| music |
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John
Addison |
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| art
direction/design |
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James
Hulsey |
| costume
design |
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Noel
Taylor |
| cinematography |
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John
McPherson,
Brian West |
| distribution |
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CBS
Television, USA
Movies Unlimited, USA (video)
Columbia Tristar Home Video, USA, 1992 (video) |
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USA,
Europe |
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| DIRECTOR |
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John
Erman |
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| CAST |
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Jean
Stapleton (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
SUPPORTING CAST
Richard Angarola (Zafrulla)
John Bleifer (Herr Simon)
Coral Browne (Lady
Stella Reading)
Hannah Cutrona (Hedi)
David Frankham (UN President)
Freddie Jones (Dr. Pavlov, soviet delegate)
Kenneth Kimmins (Durward Sandifer)
Lin McCarthy (Senator Arthur Vandenberg)
Richard McKenzie (Harry S Truman)
Michael Mallory (Dulles' Aide, uncredited)
Jeffrey Marcus (Buzz Roosevelt)
Maurice Marsac (Crillon Manager)
E.G. Marshall (John Foster Dulles)
Arlene Martel (Madame Jahar)
Tasha Martel (Madame Jahan)
John Miller
Douglas Robinson (2nd Reporter)
Duncan Ross (Chairman 3rd Committee)
Essex Smith (John Mays)
Gail Strickland (Anna Roosevelt Dall)
Joyce Van Patten (Melvina 'Tommy' Thompson)
Peter White (James Roosevelt)
Lee Wilkof (1st Reporter)
Chris Winfield (2nd Steward) |
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The
film is about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt after the death
of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1945.
At
the request of the new US president, Harry S Truman, Mrs. Roosevelt
becomes a US delegate to the newly founded United
Nations and helps shape the international organisation.
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keeps clashing with John Foster Dulles, a prominent Republican
who was later to become Secretary of State under President
Eisenhower.
Mrs. Roosevelt makes no bones about telling Dulles
and Soviet UN Ambassador Dr. Pavlov what she thinks about communism.
Tirelessly,
she fights for human rights and conducts many campaigns against
injustice around the world.
In 1948 she chairs the
commission which drafts the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. |
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...Richard
Kaplan's The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965), a documentary released
three years after her death. |
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QUICK BITS |
• The
title of the TV film, First Lady of the World, is a reference
to
the comment made by President Harry S Truman about Mrs. Roosevelt,
who was famous for travelling the world to promote human
rights.
• Kabir's TV-film
Eleanor.First Lady of the World is based on Rhonda Lerman's
book "Eleanor
- A Novel" from 1979.
• When she was told twice in one week, independently
by two different people, that she should play Eleanor Roosevelt,
Jean Stapleton's
first response was to go to the Roosevelt Library and read
up on the First Lady's life with a view to writing a
play about it.
• During her research at the Roosevelt Library, Jean
Stapleton got to know Rhonda Lerman. Their friendship was to
develop into
a professional relationship in which they worked together on
the TV film and a stage play about the life of Mrs. Roosevelt.
• Jean Stapleton's contract to CBS stipulated that she
make a TV movie - Eleanor.First Lady of the World
was the ideal choice for it.
• Eleanor.First Lady of the World was nominated in
1983 for two Golden Globes: Best mini series/TV-film and
Jean Stapleton as Best Actress. |
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GENERAL INFORMATION |
• Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962) gave new meaning to the
phrase 'First Lady' by becoming actively involved in her
husband's political
work, which took her on many foreign trips.
• New York native Eleanor Roosevelt is
considered one of the world´s first feminists and
human rights activists.
• The TV film focuses on the period after President
Roosevelt's
death in 1945, when Eleanor begins her own career as human
rights activist.
• The later Broadway stage monologue Eleanor - Her
Secret Journey also begins in 1945, but then looks back
on Eleanor's
earlier life.
• British
critic Paul Johnson wrote in a book review: "Eleanor
must stand high in the list of women most men would least
like to be married to." |
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• Jean
Stapleton bears a strong physical resemblance
with Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Jean Stapleton says about her
starring role: "I was privileged to play the part
in Eleanor.First Lady of the World, about
her post-White House life as a delegate to the U.N.".
• Jean Stapleton,
born in New York in 1923, became one of the most prominent
cult figures of the late 1970s
with her part as housewife Edith Bunker in the TV series
All in the Family (1979). The show won many accolades.
• However, film industry magazine Variety said
that Jean Stapleton has one big problem: in her Eleanor,
there
is always a bit of Edith Bunker lurking in the background.
It said this occurs particularly when the First Lady
has to deal with surprises. Stapleton´s most famous
character was just too convincing ever to go away, and
there´s nothing the actress can do about it, the
magazine said.
• Hairstylist Hazel
Catmull won an Emmy in
1982 for the TV-film.
• Freddie Jones,
born 1927 in England, starred as librarian
Koreander in The NeverEnding Story III (1994).
• Both, 'Outstanding
Lead Actress' Jean Stapleton and costume
designer Noel
Taylor earned Emmy nominations in 1982 for their
work in Eleanor.First Lady of the World.
• Australian Coral Browne (1913-1991)
was the third wife of actor Vincent Price. |
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PRODUCTION DIARY |
»Februar
2, 2001 - Eleanor.First Lady of the World -
now a Broadway play
Kabir's 1982 TV-movie
will be performed as the theatrical play Eleanor
- Her Secret Journey (play completed 1998) on
Broadway in the
2001 season. Author is Rhoda Lerman and Jean Stapleton
will star in the one-woman-show. |
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