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Abe Lincoln in Illinois

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In John Cromwell: From The Prisoner of Zenda to Caged
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Robert E. Sherwood. The moving drama featured an Academy Award-nominated performance by Raymond Massey as the future president; Ruth Gordon was Mary Todd Lincoln, and Cromwell played John Brown.
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In Ruth Gordon
…during the early 1940s, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), in which she played Mary Todd Lincoln; William Dieterle’s Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940); Two-Faced Woman (1941; Greta Garbo’s final film); Edge of Darkness (1942); and Action in the North Atlantic
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