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Tennessee Johnson

From poverty to a president. A great American story!

6.2 average rating
6.2
English / 103 MIN. / 1942

The Genres

The Synopsis

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

The Cast

Van HeflinLionel BarrymoreRuth HusseyMarjorie MainRegis ToomeyJ. Edward BrombergGrant WithersAlec CraigCharles DingleCarl Benton ReidRussell HicksNoah BeeryRobert WarwickMontagu LoveLloyd CorriganWilliam FarnumCharles TrowbridgeLynne CarverRussell SimpsonMorris AnkrumDane ClarkJeff CoreyJim DavisWill Wright

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