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The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.
A former Governor of New York who had easily carried the state four years earlier, Franklin Roosevelt won New York State in 1936 by an even more decisive margin. Roosevelt took 58.85% of the vote versus Alf Landon's 38.97%, a margin of 19.88%.
The Plow That Broke the Plains had its first showing at the White House in March 1936. After several private showings, the film was officially released to the public at the Mayflower Hotel on May 10, 1936. [14] Following President Roosevelt's private showing, FDR praised Lorentz for his work and wanted to show it to a joint session of Congress. [8]
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The President's Mystery is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer and Evelyn Brent.It was based on a novel inspired by an outline by the sitting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with all proceeds of both the book and films going to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation [1] It was produced and distributed by Republic ...
Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Roger Michell.The film stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel West as King George VI, Olivia Colman as his wife Queen Elizabeth and Laura Linney as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a cousin and childhood friend of the President.
I'd Rather Be Right is a 1937 musical with a book by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and music by Richard Rodgers.The story is a Depression-era political satire set in New York City about Washington politics and political figures such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Brian Keith played Roosevelt in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion. James Gammon portrayed him in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "British East Africa, September 1909". He was also portrayed by actor Tom Berenger in 1997 for the TNT movie Rough Riders, a made-for-cable film about his exploits during the Spanish–American War in ...