Abraham Lincoln

Resource Information

The work Abraham Lincoln represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Abraham Lincoln

Statement of responsibility

United Artists Picture ; Feature Productions, Inc. ; Joseph M. Schenck presents ; adapted for the screen by Stephen Vincent Benet ; story and production advisor, John W. Considine, Jr. ; personally directed by D.W. Griffith ; continuity and dialogue, Stephen Vincent Benet and Gerrit Lloyd. The struggle / a United Artists picture ; D.W. Griffith, Inc. ; from the screen story by Anita Loos and John Emerson ; directed by D.W. Griffith

Contributor

• Campeau, Frank, 1864-1943
• Considine, John W., Jr., 1898-1961
• Cooper, Claude, 1880-1932
• Crockett, Charles, 1870-1934
• Dearing, Edgar, 1893-1974
• Eagles, James, 1907-1959
• Emerson, John, 1874-1956
• Freeman, Helen, 1886-1960
• Griffith, D. W., (David Wark), 1875-1948
• Hagan, Edna
• Halliday, Jackson, 1902-1966
• Hammond, Kay, 1909-1980
• Hoffman, Otto, 1879-1944
• Huston, Walter, 1884-1950
• Israel, Walter, 1882-1970
• Johann, Zita, 1904-1993
• Keith, Ian, 1899-1960
• La Verne, Lucille, 1872-1945
• Lipson, Arthur
• Lloyd, Gerrit J
• Loos, Anita, 1893-1981
• Menzies, William Cameron, 1896-1957
• Merkel, Una, 1903-1986
• Prud'homme, Cameron, 1892-1967
• Richman, Charles, 1870-1940
• Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939
• Robards, Jason, 1892-1963
• Rogan, Bernard
• Ruttenberg, Joseph, 1889-1983
• Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961
• Simpson, Russell, 1877-1959
• Skelly, Hal, 1891-1934
• Smith, James, 1892-1975
• Struss, Karl, 1886-1981
• Thorne, William L., 1878-1948
• Walthall, Henry B., (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936
• Ware, Helen, 1877-1939
• Warren, E. Alyn, 1874-1940
• Wynters, Charlotte
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
• Thorpe, Gordon, 1922-1989
• D.W. Griffith, Inc
• Feature Productions, Inc
• Kino International Corporation
• United Artists Corporation
• Apfel, Oscar, 1879-1938
• Baldwin, Evelyn, 1910-2004
• Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
• Bosworth, Hobart, 1867-1943
• Bradbury, James, 1857-1940

Subject

• Biographical films
• Historical films
• Alcoholism -- Drama
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Drama
• Presidents -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Historical films
• Biographical films

Language

eng

Summary

• Abraham Lincoln: An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States focusing on Lincoln's personal tragedies as well as his great accomplishments
• The struggle: An intimate drama of an American man who falls victim to the debilitating affliction of alcoholism

Related

• Struggle

Member of

• Griffith masterworks 2

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Abraham Lincoln: Photography by Karl Struss ; settings by William Cameron Menzies ; music arrangements, Hugo Riesenfeld ; film editor, James Smith ; costumes, Walter Israel
• The struggle: Cinematographer, Joseph Ruttenberg ; film editor, Barney Rogan

PerformerNote

• Abraham Lincoln: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, W.L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman, Otto Hoffman, Edgar Deering, Russell Simpson, Charles Crockett, Kay Hammond, Helen Ware, E. Alyn Warren, Jason Robards, Gordon Thorpe, Ian Keith, Cameron Prudhomme, James Bradbury, Sr., Jimmie Eagle, Oscar Apfel, Frank Campeau, Hobart Bosworth, Henry B. Walthall
• The struggle: Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin, Jackson Halliday, Edna Hagan, Claude Cooper, Arthur Lipson, Charles Richman

Runtime

186

Series statement

Griffith masterworks

Series volume

2

Technique

live action