Eleanor Roosevelt: Still Waiting for Her Closeup
by Peter Dreier on
Many younger Americans probably know very little about Eleanor Roosevelt, and if their first encounter with her is the new film Hyde Park on Hudson, what they'll learn is incredibly misleading and inaccurate. Other films - including Sunrise At Campobello (1960), the two-part Eleanor Franklin HBO mini-series (1976), Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982) and Warm Springs (2005) - have depicted different aspects of her life. But Hollywood can't seem to make … read more.
