Tennessee Johnson

Directed by William Dieterle
Not Rated
1942    1h 43mHistory, Drama,
6.5100%
This biopic focuses on Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached. Initially an uneducated drifter who stumbles upon a job as a tailor in a Tennessee town, Johnson is taught to read by librarian and future wife Eliza, who convinces him to enter a local election; from there he rises swiftly. However, after inheriting the presidency in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, he finds himself on unsteady political ground.
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Cast of Tennessee Johnson
  • Van HeflinAndrew Johnson
  • Lionel BarrymoreThaddeus Stevens
  • Ruth HusseyEliza McCardle Johnson
  • Marjorie MainMrs. Maude Fisher
  • Regis ToomeyBlackstone McDaniel
  • J. Edward BrombergCoke
  • Grant WithersMordecai Milligan
  • Alec CraigSam Andrews
  • Charles DingleSenator Jim Waters
  • Carl Benton ReidCongressman Hargrove
  • Russell HicksLincoln's Emissary
  • Noah BeerySheriff Cass (as Noah Beery Sr.)
  • Robert WarwickMajor Crooks
  • Montagu LoveChief Justice Chase
  • Lloyd CorriganMr. Secretary
  • William FarnumSenator Huyler
  • Charles TrowbridgeLansbury
  • Lynne CarverMartha Lincoln
  • Russell SimpsonKirby
  • Morris AnkrumJefferson Davis
  • Dane ClarkWirts (uncredited)
  • Jeff CoreyCaptain (uncredited)
  • Jim DavisReporter (uncredited)
  • Will WrightAlderman (uncredited)
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