Click Play for a Scene from the Show"A Presidential Love Story" tells the story of Honest Abe's formative years. We learn of his remarkable boyhood character from these early tales and his early political days, excerpted from Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry." The second half of the program tells the love story between young Lincoln and Ann Rutlidge, his fiancee who died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen.
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FeaturingA Presidential Love StoryPat Buttram as Abraham Lincoln
Jeanette Nolan as Adele Douglas Kathleen Freeman as Sarah Lincoln Parley Baer as Mentor Vance Colvig as The Auctioneer Eddie Firestone as The Reporter Lou Krugman as Denton Offut Peggy Webber as Thomas William Woodson as Stephen Douglas with Narrator Dan O'Herlihy Ann RutledgeJeanette Nolan as Ann Rutlidge
Pat Buttram as Abraham Lincoln Kathleen Freeman as Mrs. Rutlidge Parley Baer as Mr. Rutlidge William Woodson as John McNeil Sean McClory as Jack Armstrong Lou Krugman as The Doctor Richard Erdman as The Narrator Peggy Webber as Peter and CART's Announcer John Harlan Written and Directed by Norman Corwin
Music by Lynn Murray Produced by Peggy Webber Production Engineer - Zamp Nicholl Sound Effects - Cliff Thorsness and Bud Toleffson Post Production - Warren Dewey |
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