Abe Lincoln in Illinois

noun

1. a play (1938) by Robert E. Sherwood.

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Other notable stage credits included “After the Fall,” “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” and “I Never Sang for My Father.”

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John Cromwell’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is written for the screen by Robert E. Sherwood, who adapted his hit play.

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Theater has been churning the biographies of political leaders into drama for decades; Robert Sherwood won the Pulitzer Prize more than 75 years ago for his play “Abe Lincoln in Illinois”; in the late 1950s, “Sunrise at Campobello,” Dore Schary’s play about Franklin Roosevelt’s struggle with polio, ran for 556 performances on Broadway.

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The pivotal event came in January 1963, while he was directing a Phoenix production of Robert Sherwood’s drama “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” starring Hal Holbrook.

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MacFarlane did press his luck a bit on an Abraham Lincoln joke, noting that Raymond Massey preceded “Lincoln” star Daniel Day-Lewis as an Oscar nominee for 1940’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.”

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