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7 unusual facts about Eleanor and Franklin


Barbara Smith Conrad

In addition to her operatic stage roles, Barbara played Marian Anderson in the 1977 ABC movie Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, and in 1994 followed that performance with a European concert/recital tour commemorating the renowned contralto.

Dinwiddie County Pullman Car

It appeared in the 1976 television movie Eleanor and Franklin as the funeral car for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Eleanor and Franklin

Lilia SkalaMarie Souvestre, Teacher, mentor, close friend of Eleanor's from Allenswood

It is the first part in a two-part biopic based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling biography with the same title.

Anna Lee — Laura Delano, FDR's cousin at the Little White House when he passed

Peggy McCay

In the 1970s, McCay appeared in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, How the West Was Won, and The Lazarus Syndrome.

Rosemary Murphy

She also acts in films and on TV, most notably portraying Sara Delano Roosevelt in the TV miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) (for which she won an Emmy) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977).



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