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Abe Lincoln in Illinois   1940         N/R, 110 min. Genre: Drama Director: John Cromwell   Cast: Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Elisabeth Risdon, Aldrich Bowker, Maurice Murphy, Louis Jean Heydt, Clem Bevans   Based on Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning play, this is a classic film about the 16th President, covering his childhood through election to the Presidency. Along with Lincoln's professional life, highlighted by his debates with Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), his personal life, including the doomed courtship of Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and later marriage to Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon in her screen debut) are also part of the story. Cast Raymond Massey Abraham Lincoln Ruth Gordon Mary Todd Lincoln Gene Lockhart Stephen Douglas Mary Howard Ann Rutledge Howard Da Silva Jack Armstrong Dorothy Tree Elizabeth Edwards Harvey Stephens Ninian Edwards Minor Watson Joshua Speed Alan Baxter Billy Herndon Elisabeth Risdon Sarah Hanks Lincoln Aldrich Bowker Judge Bowling Green Maurice Murphy John McNeil Louis Jean Heydt Mentor Graham Clem Bevans Ben Mattingly

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