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...Tennessee backwoodsman and lawyer to be elected seventh President of the U.S. in 1828. He raced horses, fought Indians, was as handy with a gun as with a legal brief. Mostly, this film biography looks at Jackson (Charlton Heston) through the eyes of his wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels to defend her honor), and during his campaign...
...When his best friend announced that he was getting married, 21-year-old Charles Donelson of St. Joseph, Mo. decided that it might be nice to make it a double ceremony. Donelson, an ex-G.L, ran a newspaper advertisement: "Wanted, one girl under 21, to get married by Saturday." After interviewing only a few of 253 willing candidates, he chose gangling, 18-year-old Irene Krebbs and married her exactly on schedule before a big crowd at the Frog Hop ballroom...
...Buckner had been born for this job. His father, Simon Bolivar Buckner ST., named for the South American liberator, had served with distinction in the Mexican War and worn a lieutenant general's stars in the Confederate Army. As a brigadier he had been forced to surrender Fort Donelson to his old West Point classmate, U. S. Grant. But he was exchanged, twice promoted, and wound up the war still fighting...
...rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard...
Andrew Jackson's relict was ostracized in Washington society for smoking her proverbial pipe and being a divorcee. . . . Unlike Mrs. Roosevelt, who as TIME states, smokes only for purpose of placing her guests at ease, Mrs. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson thoroughly enjoyed the relaxation provided by her tobacco...