Bupp Filmology
Week Thirty-one
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"Tennessee Johnson" 1942
that's Sonny, looking at the new Vice President (center)
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MOVIE NAME: TENNESSEE JOHNSON
STUDIO: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
PRODUCER: J. WALTER RUBEN
DIRECTOR: WILLIAM DIETERLE
DATE: 1942
TYPE: HISTORICAL DRAMA
CAST:
VAN HEFLIN as Andrew Johnson, LIONEL BARRYMORE as Thaddeus Stevens, RUTH HUSSEY as Eliza McCardle , MARJORIE MAIN as Mrs. Fisher , REGIS TOOMEY as McDaniel, J. EDWARD BROMBERG as Coke, NOAH BERRY, Sr. as Sheriff Cass, SONNY BUPP as boy in background
STORY: The Senate of the United States, in 1868, sat as high court in judgement upon Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, as president. In the only great State trial in our history, President Johnson, was charged with violation of a law which forbade him to dismiss a member of his cabinet. In 1926, the Supreme Court pronounced this law Unconstitutional, as Johnson contended it was. This is his story.
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