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Amazon's got the Holbrook Lincoln film and the Watterston film (with MTMoore as MTLincoln) each for around 6 bucks.
--LH
On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Harold Bush wrote:
> James Cornelius, curator at the Lincoln Library, mentioned to me that one
> of his favorite Lincoln films was on TV, with Hal Holbrook!!
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> so our legendary Twain actor also did Lincoln -- HH as both the Lincoln of
> our literature and the Mark Twain of our politics!! I wonder if that
> version -- with Mary Tyler Moore -- is available out there somewhere??
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> I'm a little surprised about the Holbrook mention, thanks for that. take a
> look at this:
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> just for fun; of all places, here is a listing of the top 10 Lincoln films,
> which oddly, appeared at AARP (maybe old timers like Honest Abe??): it
> includes the Holbrook version:
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> http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/info-11-2012/abraham-lincolns-in-hollywood-photos.html#slide10
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> --
> Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
> Professor of English
> Saint Louis University
> St. Louis, MO 63108
> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
> <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>
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