Wilson (1944)

Won 5 Oscars
- 7 wins & 7 nominations total

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Alexander Knox

Woodrow Wilson

Charles Coburn

Professor Henry Holmes

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Edith Wilson

Thomas Mitchell

Joseph Tumulty

Ruth Nelson

Ellen Wilson

Cedric Hardwicke

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
(as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

Vincent Price

William G. McAdoo

William Eythe

George Felton

Mary Anderson

Eleanor Wilson

Ruth Ford

Margaret Wilson

Sidney Blackmer

Josephus Daniels

Madeleine Forbes

Jessie Wilson

Stanley Ridges

Admiral Grayson

Eddie Foy Jr.

Eddie Foy

Charles Halton

Colonel House

Thurston Hall

Senator E.H. Jones

J.M. Kerrigan

Edward Sullivan

James Rennie

Jim Beeker

Director
- Henry King
Writer
- Lamar Trotti
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Trivia
Franklin D. Roosevelt screened the film at the Second Quebec Conference in 1944. Among those watching were Winston Churchill who was decidedly unimpressed and left early to go to bed. For his part, Roosevelt, upon seeing the part with Wilson suffering a stroke while advocating for the League of Nations, remarked, "by God, that's not going to happen to me!"

Goofs
As the Wilsons tour the White House on their first day, they stop to admire the official portrait of President Taft. As Taft had left office only that day, no official portrait of him would as yet have been painted or hung.

Quotes
Professor Henry Holmes: Now I know why the Democratic Party chose a jackass for a mascot.

Crazy credits
The 20th Century Fox logo appears without the usual fanfare.

Connections
Featured in History Brought to Life (1950)

Soundtracks
Yip I Addy I Ay
(uncredited)
Written by Will D. Cobb, John H. Flynn and George Grossmith

I was pleasantly surprised by this fine film

This is really a great movie. I've been trying to track it down for years and just found it on the Fox Movie Channel last night. The script is well written and for a Hollywood bio-pic it is pretty historically accurate. I thought Knox was excellent as Wilson and wished he had done more high profile movies. And I was also very impressed by the high production values.

Don't know how much Zanuck spent on it but it was all up there on the screen. The Technicolor of those times is always lovely to look at too. Of course it came out in the middle of World War II, so a slight excess of flag-waving is to be expected. And any cast of supporting actors that runs the gamut from Thomas Mitchell to Vincent Price can't be all bad either. An altogether entertaining top quality movie.