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The President's Lady

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6.8/10 • 15

1953-05-211h 36m

DramaRomanceWestern

They branded her adulteress!

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

Directors
Henry Levin
Writters
John Patrick
Editors
William B. Murphy

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  1. Susan Hayward

    Susan Hayward

    Rachel Donaldson

  2. Charlton Heston

    Charlton Heston

    Andrew Jackson

  3. John McIntire

    John McIntire

    John Overton

  4. Fay Bainter

    Fay Bainter

    Mrs. Donaldson

  5. Ruth Attaway

    Ruth Attaway

    Moll

  6. Margaret Wycherly

    Margaret Wycherly

    Mrs. Robards

  7. Gladys Hurlbut

    Gladys Hurlbut

    Mrs. Phariss

  8. Carl Betz

    Carl Betz

    Charles Dickinson

  9. John George

    John George

    Spectator at Speech (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Jun 1, 2025

7/10

Susan Hayward does quite well here as a married woman who has had enough of her husband. She decides that she wants to return to her mother’s (quite heavily fortified) Nashville home and luckily has Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston) on hand to see she isn’t interfered with. Their journey isn’t without peril though, and as they strive to avoid both her pursuing husband and and some marauding Indians, they start to fall in love. He has aspirations to make life better for the settlers, so starts up a militia to fight off the natives and with him already being a qualified lawyer, the couple soon become prominent figures and he is Senate bound. When they are told that her husband sued for divorce on the grounds of her adultery, they marry - but that proves to be just one of the misfortunes that befall this couple as he heads ever closer to a job in the recently burned down White House. It’s a slightly skewed bionic, this one, as it really focuses more on “Miss Rachel” until the last five minutes whence we realise that his political career has been steadily building, even is she had been a bit of a pariah when it came to his social standing over the years. Heston does enough, I suppose - he isn’t a natural here, really but Hayward who delivers a lively and considered performance and the storyline illustrates quite well the difficulties faced by these pioneering folks in the face of the locals; the still largely subservient position of women and a fairly widespread sense of double-standardised bigotry that he wants to eradicate. One man’s scandal is another’s opportunity?

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Status
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Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
presidentromancehistoricalandrew jackson