Eleanor and Franklin part one (1976 miniseries about the Roosevelts)
Eleanor and Franklin (1976) is a mini-series broadcast on ABC on January 11, 1976, starring Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. It was based on the 1971 Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling biography by Eleanor's personal secretary Joseph P. Lash.
The film relates their lives in flashback from the perspective of the the newly-widowed Eleanor (in 1945), who recalls
the time they were children as cousins who met briefly
their courtship and marriage
bearing and raising a large family
her social efforts as he rises to Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World War I
his hidden affair with Lucy Mercer
her help and encourgement with his famous bout with the affliction of polio
her campaigning with Louis Howe, their mentor, crony and campaign manager during her husband’s runs for political offices in the New York state legislature
his unsuccessful effort for Vice President in 1920
his election as Governor of New York and his rivalry with the failed candidate for the presidency in 1928, Al Smith
his election to the Presidency in 1932 during the "Great Depression".
Part two, about FDR's years in the White House and World War II, is here:
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