Both Kenneth Branagh "and" Edward Herrmann did an oustanding job w/this role. I watched Eleanor and Franklin a number of years ago and it's became one of my all-time favorite films. I was very impressed with both Edward as Franklin and Jane Alexander as Eleanor. I confess that when I saw the cover of the DVD with Kenneth and Cynthia I had doubts. I felt no one could hold a candle to Edward and Jane. I was wrong. Both actors as Franklin and both actresses as Eleanor were perfectly cast and excellently portrayed. I must add that I admire Jane Alexander for playing Franklin's mother. What a lady, what an actress. She convincingly played both Franklin's wife "and" mother!!! Kudos to both films and both casts!!!
I think it would be remiss if we did not also include Ralph Bellamy in 'Sunrise at Campobello.' To be frank, I think he made a much better FDR than Kenneth Branagh. He even looks more like him and is much better at FDR's 'locust valley lockjaw' accent and mannerisms. Greer Garson also made an excellent Eleanor. However, I do think that Edward Herrmann made the best FDR, playing him not only in Eleanor and Franklin but also Eleanor and Franklin the White House Years as well as in the movie 'Annie.' He was so good that in 1976 FDR Jr. said during an interview that both he and Jane Alexander were so good that when he saw the movie he had to keep pinching himself to remind him that they were NOT his mother and father
This film won 5 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie, Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Jane Alexander and Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
He was an amazing man, he lived through and led America through an amazing time, and was married to a woman who was even more amazing than he was. Ken Burns PBS Documentary about the Roosevelt's should not be missed.
I just finished watching the Ken Burns version, and it was great. Interesting that Jane Alexander has now played both FDR's wife and mother, and excels in both roles.
My wife and I drive almost 4 hours , several times a year to stay at FDR state park and never fail to vist the Little White House. A great film and deserves every award. On another note, 14 members of his Marine security guard were killed in ww2 and one company c.o. was awarded the MOH.
Kenneth Branagh won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Belfast. Kenneth Branagh became the first person to be nominated in seven different Academy Awards categories, surpassing Walt Disney, Alfonso Cuarón and George Clooney with six.
The scene that stuck with me the most in this movie was when they show the young woman at Warm Springs who was once a dancer,paralysed by polio,with scars on her wrists from a suicide attempt because she couldnt dance.She was young,too. HBO made many good movies.
I guess the same way you could imagine a man who was barely able to move ANY part of his body, and had to speak through a computerized voice, to become the world's most acclaimed cosmologist and theoretical physicist. That would of course be Stephen Hawking.
@@sueferris3685 It's not the same at ALL. The world of science and academia is in no way like politics! The American people simply do NOT elect a cripple as president. Even today it would be pretty unthinkable. There is still a kind of 'stigma' attached to a physical disability that it somehow affects the brain as well. Plus it makes people feel uncomfortable. The American presidency, thanks to men like Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan, is somehow connected to this sort physical masculinity. Why do you think JFK worked so hard to hide HIS illnesses and back disability? Plus there are all the people and organizations that need to line up behind a candidate in order to successfully run. I doubt even the 2 major parties would get behind a candidate in a wheelchair. The only way someone like FDR could be elected now was if he was, like FDR said in the movie, a war hero and became disabled that way. FDR didn't exactly 'hide' his disability. But back then, we didn't have the modern media like today. Plus people were kinder back then. The press had that agreement to not photograph him in his wheelchair or being carried. It's said that something like 2/3rds of the American people had no clue he was disabled. As for those at gatherings who saw him, he was SO popular and was doing such a good job that those people simply ignored his disability. As one biographer put it 'people would simply just not see what they were seeing.'
As a man with numerous health issues which are quite debilitating at times and was in politics for over 20 years, were I alive back then, the answer to your question would be ME!
I think there is a moment in the movie where the nation and it's trajectory changes the 20th century profoundly. It happens at the train station where he advises the young polio sufferer," let's go home." We would would have a president thereafter like no other in history.
More importantly, it gave him the empathy and compassion he needed to help those in need across the country, especially during the depression. That's what Eleanor said in any event.
@@Fast_Forward_Racing I actually just went up to warm springs from Columbus a few days ago with my family to eat at the Bulloch. I stopped by the pools and they told me there was like a $6 million dollar renovation project underway. They're redoing the whole facility. Another commenter said they're open on Labor Day every year. Since you live in warm springs, are you aware they're open on Labor Day? I'd like to clarify that little nugget.
@@abundantharmony I did not know that, but I truly was raised there. I worked at the Bulloch house for almost 5 years, even one year before the building burned down. Then I moved to Columbus to go to college at CSU, and graduated this previous fall. I’ve been to the institute many times but never to the pool, I always go to the pond at the bottom half bc it has hiking trails. I hope you hiked some of the pine mountain trail while here.
I know the pendulum will swing the other way and we will have a president again someday like him - not the self aggrandizing, narcissistic, crass lech we have today.
I am like Mr. Roosevelt. I want to be useful. S 73 what do I do. Maybe substitute teach Maybe audition for plays Maybe. Swim at the YMCA God has not called me yet.
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If some would take the time to read and watch history on Fdr they would see a lot of home president trump,they both would they have to do for the betterment of this great country
Decent enough flick Love Kenneth Branagh but he looks nothing like FDR nor does he capture his mannerisms correctly in the least . A lot of invented fiction as well with regards to FDRs life at that point.
I'm afraid I am inclined to agree with you. I've studied a LOT about FDR (having been in politics myself as well as having disabilities not polio though). This film took a LOT of liberties. For instance, in the beginning, FDR was NOT all alone in Florida on that houseboat. He had friends with him including his secretary Missy LeHand. They would go out on the boat were he would fish and swim. When FDR contracted polio, Sara was NOT there in Campobello with them. She was in Europe at the time and came back about 2 weeks or so after his contracting the disease. Also, it is shown here that FDR was at home in Hyde Park when the contracted polio when he was in fact at his summer home on Campobello island. Even the Roosevelt home here looks nothing like the actual house (I've been there). Perhaps the worst was FDR's nomination speech for Al Smith and it's relationship to Warm Springs. FDR was involved in Smith's campaign from the beginning. He was staying in his town house in New York City at the time. He gave the speech in June, 1924. It was his son James, NOT Elliot who helped him. Also, he did not use a cane but rather crutches. His technique of 'walking' using a cane and a person on the other side of him would not come until later. FDR did not even go to Warm Springs for the first time until October 1924, 4 months after he gave the nomination speech.
@@YaleinPrague I can guarantee you that at MY age, if I'm lucky enough to be in someone's bedroom, I am NOT looking at their mattress! 😜 However, what is so bad about thinking that a drama based on real and historic events about a person should be historically accurate and not make so many mistakes?
Both Kenneth Branagh "and" Edward Herrmann did an oustanding job w/this role. I watched Eleanor and Franklin a number of years ago and it's became one of my all-time favorite films. I was very impressed with both Edward as Franklin and Jane Alexander as Eleanor. I confess that when I saw the cover of the DVD with Kenneth and Cynthia I had doubts. I felt no one could hold a candle to Edward and Jane. I was wrong. Both actors as Franklin and both actresses as Eleanor were perfectly cast and excellently portrayed. I must add that I admire Jane Alexander for playing Franklin's mother. What a lady, what an actress. She convincingly played both Franklin's wife "and" mother!!! Kudos to both films and both casts!!!
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I think it would be remiss if we did not also include Ralph Bellamy in 'Sunrise at Campobello.' To be frank, I think he made a much better FDR than Kenneth Branagh. He even looks more like him and is much better at FDR's 'locust valley lockjaw' accent and mannerisms. Greer Garson also made an excellent Eleanor.
However, I do think that Edward Herrmann made the best FDR, playing him not only in Eleanor and Franklin but also Eleanor and Franklin the White House Years as well as in the movie 'Annie.'
He was so good that in 1976 FDR Jr. said during an interview that both he and Jane Alexander were so good that when he saw the movie he had to keep pinching himself to remind him that they were NOT his mother and father
What a great man he is...
FDR....
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We still miss him very much so far.
This film won 5 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie, Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Jane Alexander and Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Now I understand what FDR meant when he said:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Yes it is... you are damn right.
He overcame a lot.
He was an amazing man, he lived through and led America through an amazing time, and was married to a woman who was even more amazing than he was. Ken Burns PBS Documentary about the Roosevelt's should not be missed.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator - Peter Coyote: Get Action (1858-1901).
I just finished watching the Ken Burns version, and it was great. Interesting that Jane Alexander has now played both FDR's wife and mother, and excels in both roles.
FDR was a great man. Wonderful film. Now look at what we have.😔🤦
I cried. FDR is my hero. Eleanor too.
One of the most inspirational movies I have ever seen. Kenneth Brannagh brought FDR to life again.
My wife and I drive almost 4 hours , several times a year to stay at FDR state park and never fail to vist the Little White House. A great film and deserves every award. On another note, 14 members of his Marine security guard were killed in ww2 and one company c.o. was awarded the MOH.
Make sure to eat the Bulloch house
Beautiful in the fall and spring time
Everyone should visit once
Pine mountain is beautiful
Great actor Kenneth Branagh♥️
Kenneth Branagh won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Reinhard Heydrich in Conspiracy and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Belfast. Kenneth Branagh became the first person to be nominated in seven different Academy Awards categories, surpassing Walt Disney, Alfonso Cuarón and George Clooney with six.
The scene that stuck with me the most in this movie was when they show the young woman at Warm Springs who was once a dancer,paralysed by polio,with scars on her wrists from a suicide attempt because she couldnt dance.She was young,too.
HBO made many good movies.
She was really disabled too! In fact, just about all the actors playing the disabled people at Warm Springs were actually disabled in real life.
Just watched Eleanor and Franklin the white House years tv movie,and never seen this one either,away to watch i go.
I have this on dvd now I can watch it on the go.. thank you 💯💯
Who would have thought a man with pilio would help the entire United States through the Great Depression and ww2
Mad respect for FDR
I guess the same way you could imagine a man who was barely able to move ANY part of his body, and had to speak through a computerized voice, to become the world's most acclaimed cosmologist and theoretical physicist. That would of course be Stephen Hawking.
@@sueferris3685 It's not the same at ALL. The world of science and academia is in no way like politics! The American people simply do NOT elect a cripple as president. Even today it would be pretty unthinkable. There is still a kind of 'stigma' attached to a physical disability that it somehow affects the brain as well. Plus it makes people feel uncomfortable. The American presidency, thanks to men like Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan, is somehow connected to this sort physical masculinity. Why do you think JFK worked so hard to hide HIS illnesses and back disability? Plus there are all the people and organizations that need to line up behind a candidate in order to successfully run. I doubt even the 2 major parties would get behind a candidate in a wheelchair.
The only way someone like FDR could be elected now was if he was, like FDR said in the movie, a war hero and became disabled that way. FDR didn't exactly 'hide' his disability. But back then, we didn't have the modern media like today. Plus people were kinder back then. The press had that agreement to not photograph him in his wheelchair or being carried. It's said that something like 2/3rds of the American people had no clue he was disabled. As for those at gatherings who saw him, he was SO popular and was doing such a good job that those people simply ignored his disability. As one biographer put it 'people would simply just not see what they were seeing.'
As a man with numerous health issues which are quite debilitating at times and was in politics for over 20 years, were I alive back then, the answer to your question would be ME!
I live five miles away from warm springs
Michael Paul I just visited ! What a wonderful town full of amazing people !
Great film beyond comprehension, true story.
I think there is a moment in the movie where the nation and it's trajectory changes the 20th century profoundly. It happens at the train station where he advises the young polio sufferer," let's go home."
We would would have a president thereafter like no other in history.
This is a great movie! I’ve watched it many times
Brings a tear to mi eye
Polio and the people of Warm Springs gave Roosevelt the depth that he needed to become a great president.
More importantly, it gave him the empathy and compassion he needed to help those in need across the country, especially during the depression. That's what Eleanor said in any event.
@@retroguy9494 Yes.
@@donaldreed2351 👍
thank you for sharing this
It was nice also to see Jane Alexander back in a familiar area to which see felt comfortable no doubt ❤️
thank you for the film
God bless the Roosevelts.
There will never be another
I WILL swim in the warm springs of Warm Springs one day. I don't think this place is open to the public, but I've been known to be quite persuasive.
If you do lmk, I live there so I wanna go too😂
The pools are open once a year to the general public. On Labor Day weekend.
@@Fast_Forward_Racing I actually just went up to warm springs from Columbus a few days ago with my family to eat at the Bulloch. I stopped by the pools and they told me there was like a $6 million dollar renovation project underway. They're redoing the whole facility. Another commenter said they're open on Labor Day every year. Since you live in warm springs, are you aware they're open on Labor Day? I'd like to clarify that little nugget.
@@retroguy9494 Are you sure, and is it extremely packed on that day?
@@abundantharmony I did not know that, but I truly was raised there. I worked at the Bulloch house for almost 5 years, even one year before the building burned down. Then I moved to Columbus to go to college at CSU, and graduated this previous fall. I’ve been to the institute many times but never to the pool, I always go to the pond at the bottom half bc it has hiking trails. I hope you hiked some of the pine mountain trail while here.
What a man!
Ojala tubieron la versión doblada Al español o subtitulada gracias
Thank you ! From Canada
Aap es move ko hindi me loard kariye na sir
Aap ko bahut bahut mehar bani hogi
What is the name of the song he walks out to before his speech at the end?
I know the pendulum will swing the other way and we will have a president again someday like him - not the self aggrandizing, narcissistic, crass lech we have today.
The person he grows to be came about through pain and pain of really knowing themselves. Right now he is self aggrandizing, narcissistic, crass lech.
Free movie club!
thank you!
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I am like Mr. Roosevelt. I want to be useful. S 73 what do I do.
Maybe substitute teach
Maybe audition for plays
Maybe. Swim at the YMCA
God has not called me yet.
I only came to see the Summerville Depot
love it!!!
5 stars
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If some would take the time to read and watch history on Fdr they would see a lot of home president trump,they both would they have to do for the betterment of this great country
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
Decent enough flick
Love Kenneth Branagh but he looks nothing like FDR nor does he capture his mannerisms correctly in the least .
A lot of invented fiction as well with regards to FDRs life at that point.
I'm afraid I am inclined to agree with you. I've studied a LOT about FDR (having been in politics myself as well as having disabilities not polio though). This film took a LOT of liberties. For instance, in the beginning, FDR was NOT all alone in Florida on that houseboat. He had friends with him including his secretary Missy LeHand. They would go out on the boat were he would fish and swim. When FDR contracted polio, Sara was NOT there in Campobello with them. She was in Europe at the time and came back about 2 weeks or so after his contracting the disease. Also, it is shown here that FDR was at home in Hyde Park when the contracted polio when he was in fact at his summer home on Campobello island. Even the Roosevelt home here looks nothing like the actual house (I've been there). Perhaps the worst was FDR's nomination speech for Al Smith and it's relationship to Warm Springs. FDR was involved in Smith's campaign from the beginning. He was staying in his town house in New York City at the time. He gave the speech in June, 1924. It was his son James, NOT Elliot who helped him. Also, he did not use a cane but rather crutches. His technique of 'walking' using a cane and a person on the other side of him would not come until later. FDR did not even go to Warm Springs for the first time until October 1924, 4 months after he gave the nomination speech.
@@retroguy9494I bet you report people who tear the labels off mattresses to the authorities.
@@YaleinPrague I can guarantee you that at MY age, if I'm lucky enough to be in someone's bedroom, I am NOT looking at their mattress! 😜
However, what is so bad about thinking that a drama based on real and historic events about a person should be historically accurate and not make so many mistakes?
Not sure what the big whoop is about this film. I wasn't impressed at all.
Of course you don't
@@monizdm What?
I had the same reaction as you when I read your comment--about as much value as a two-day-old hiccup.
@@infonomicsI didn't ask for your opinion. So defensive.
@@pillsie - Wow, that was a three-pronged harpoon to mon coeur. Je me rends!
Gildoroy Lockhart was FDR
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