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Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television,
especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted
three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often
appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic
candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope,
Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In the 1930s and
'40s, fan magazines such as Photoplay and Modern Screen published
her opinions on the movies, and she boldly appeared in an
interventionist prologue to the 1940 anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall.
During World War 2, she contributed to civil defense films and
became a staple joke in Hollywood comedies. She negotiated postwar
representations of FDR on the big screen, culminating in 1960's
Sunrise at Campobello, which portrayed her as the perfect wife.
This book is the first to address Eleanor Roosevelt's moving image
record and her relationship to film and television in the three
decades from the 1932 presidential campaign to her death in 1962.
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