Release Date

01 Dec, 1942

Runtime

01:43: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

From poverty to a president. A great American story!

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

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Actors

Van Heflin

Lionel Barrymore

Ruth Hussey

Marjorie Main

Regis Toomey

J. Edward Bromberg

Grant Withers

Alec Craig

Charles Dingle

Carl Benton Reid

Russell Hicks

Noah Beery

Robert Warwick

Montagu Love

Lloyd Corrigan

William Farnum

Charles Trowbridge

Lynne Carver

Russell Simpson

Morris Ankrum

Dane Clark

Crew

William Dieterle

Wells Root

John L. Balderston

Irving Asher

Cedric Gibbons

Edwin B. Willis

Al Shenberg

Harold Rosson

Robert Kern

Lon Anthony

Herbert Stothart

J. Walter Ruben