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...Yankee Doodle Dandy, when George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, meets Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President was played by an actor, seen largely from behind, who sounded so mature and wise that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies. Nobody in those days thought of making a movie about F.D.R. and his sometime mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherford. Or about Dwight Eisenhower and his wartime companion Kay Summersby. Or about J.F.K. and...well, whomever. The Kennedy...
...candidate for the U.S. Senate. Woodrow Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Roosevelt went on to win the vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after two long days of sailing and swimming at his summer home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, he suffered a chill that was misdiagnosed, then the horrifying paralysis of polio. He was told that he would never walk again...
...Town. Starting in 1941 he also produced or oversaw the production of some 300 films, including Lassie Come Home, Blackboard Jungle and Tea and Sympathy. Dismissed as head of production at MGM in 1956 because stockholders were unhappy with company earnings, he turned to playwriting. His 1958 Sunrise at Campobello, won five Tony Awards...
...four sons had not been at the house at the same time for 46 years, and it was a time for remembrance. Franklin, 64, John, 63, Elliott, 68, and James, 71, were together again at Campobello, the historic summer home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt off the New Brunswick coast. Sister Anna died 3½ years ago, but the others had reconvened from distant places to tape an oral history of family life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have...
Located on the western end of the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge leading to the resort Campobello Island, Canada, Lubec nonetheless gets little tourist trade. The local drugstore, on the second block of the four-block-long main street, does carry a few postcards of Campobello--"FDR's summer home"--but novelty items are absent from the shelves. It's a poor community with many problems...