Two movies, one factual, the other fictional. however, both share a similiar theme in that the serving President in both movies is a widower, who remarries.
Alexander Knox probably gives his career best performance as Woodrow Wilson, America's President during WW1. likewise Michael Douglas is outstanding as a strongly pricipled President, who falls in love with Annette Benning. the cast also included Martin Sheen and Michael J Fox.
I wonder if i could ask my American friends something that interests me. in An American President, Douglas had a early teenage daughter. i was just wondering if she was, though the film never said, 1st Lady or was she to young. in the fictional Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, potential President Claude Rains is a widower with an adult daughter, who as the film suggests would if her father was elected become 1st Lady. what i'd like to know is there ever been a 1st Lady in the Whitehouse, who was a daughter, rather than a wife.
Wilson and An American President
Alice Roosevelt served as first lady for her father, Theodore.
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You're probably right Stuart, I didn't check my facts first. Shame on me!
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is..
The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir
""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir
""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard