Eleanor Roosevelt on screen : the First Lady's appearances in film and television, 1932-1962 / Angela S. Beauchamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauchamp, Angela S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--In motion pictures.

Roosevelt, Eleanor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--On television.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.

Presidents' spouses.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.

Motion pictures.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

"Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In the 1930s and '40s, fan magazines such as Photoplay and Modern Screen published her opinions on the movies, and she boldly appeared in an interventionist prologue to the 1940 anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall. During World War II, she contributed to civil defense films and became a staple joke in Hollywood comedies. She also negotiated postwar representations of FDR on the big screen, culminating in 1960's Sunrise at Campobello, which portrayed her as the perfect wife. This book is the first to address Eleanor Roosevelt's moving image record and her relationship to film and television in the three decades from the 1932 presidential campaign to her death in 1962"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Manipulating gender expectations

Reluctance to speak

Film industry censorship

Isolationism and Pastor Hall

"Eleanor Roosevelt is a bad security risk"

Movies and the White House

"First Lady in Movie Debut!"

Women in defense

Postwar on film

Negotiating FDR on the big screen

Movie recommendations

Early TV appearances

Today with Mrs. Roosevelt

Mrs. Roosevelt Meets the public

"Grand Old Lady of the Democratic Party"

Joseph Kennedy's son

Anti-Communist crusades

Khrushchev: "At least we didn't shoot at each other!"

Bringing issues of race to TV

The UN: "Naïveté and cunning gracefully blended"

Reminiscing and inspiring

Prospects of mankind

Signing off.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476693026

1476693021

OCLC:

1375991440