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Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film telling the story of the struggles of future President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family when Roosevelt was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August 1921.
Sunrise at Campobello: Directed by Vincent J. Donehue. With Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen. After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
Sunrise at Campobello: Directed by Vincent J. Donehue. With Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen. After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
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- Biography, Drama
- Vincent J. Donehue
- 1960-09-26
Sunrise at Campobello (1960) - Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada ... Oscars Black History Month Sundance Film Festival SXSW STARmeter Awards Awards Central Festival ...
From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
According to a June 1960 Daily Variety news item, the U.S. State Department entered Sunrise at Campobello in the Moscow Film Festival, at which, according to an August 1961 Los Angeles Mirror news item, audience members walked out, possibly after realizing that the film did not depict the war years.
From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
