PHOTOS: The History of Abraham Lincoln on Film

The 16th president has been a Hollywood star and box office attraction since the earliest days of Hollywood

  • By Jesse Rhodes
  • Smithsonian magazine, November 2012
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Walter Huston Henry Fonda Raymond Massey Sam Waterston Benjamin Walker
Raymond Massey

(Everett Collection)


Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 1940

In the film adaptation of novelist Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Raymond Massey reprised his stage role as Lincoln. The spellbinding performance won him an Oscar nomination.

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