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Hyde Park on Hudson (31-Aug-2012)

Director: Roger Michell

Writer: Richard Nelson

Keywords: Drama

Historical drama centers on Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1939 affair with sixth cousin Daisy Suckley.

ABSTRACT
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States and a man gripped by illness halfway through his second term, reconnected with distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley in 1939 at his country estate in New York on the advice of mother Sara. The pair struck up a casual relationship that ultimately blossomed into a secret romance, a flame seeing the President through some of the toughest years of his administration as World War II loomed large on the horizon and dramatized in Hyde Park on Hudson.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eleanor Bron
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14-Mar-1934   A Touch of Love
Olivia Colman
Actor
30-Jan-1974   Sophie Chapman on Peep Show
Laura Linney
Actor
5-Feb-1964   Meryl in The Truman Show
Bill Murray
Actor
21-Sep-1950   Meatballs, SNL alumnus
Samuel West
Actor
19-Jun-1966   Howard's End
Olivia Williams
Actor
26-Jul-1968   The Sixth Sense
Elizabeth Wilson
Actor
4-Apr-1921 9-May-2015 The Graduate

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