I believe this is it:

The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp18rJierpA>

Charlie Cogar
Louisiana Missouri


On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:10 PM Carl J. Chimi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I just finished watching the 1942 biopic starring Fredric March and Alexis
> Smith.  It's probably been close to 25 years since I saw it.  Back then,
> even though I was familiar with the chronology and many of the details of
> Clemens' life, it made me happy just to see him represented on screen by
> such a fine actor, and to see many of the real and legendary events of his
> live portrayed with loving detail and sentimental devotion.
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> This time around, I found myself much more critical of the whole thing.  I
> understand much of the context of the time it was made, and the facts that
> Clara was still very much alive and that she and a trust controlled to a
> large extent the image and works of her father.  I also understand the need
> to tell his life as a story covering 74 years of a variegated career in
> about two hours.  I also have a rudimentary sense of how Americans
> perceived
> Mark Twain in the early 1940s.  But, man, did the filmmakers HAVE to
> deviate
> so much from the perpendicular truth to tell a great story?  Isn't the real
> story one of the most interesting, one of the most quintessential in
> American history, second maybe only to Lincoln's?
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> I'm curious to know if this film has ever been the subject of research.
> Just
> listing the places where it presents the facts incorrectly would be an
> article, never mind the more subjective listing of people whose characters
> are portrayed as caricatures or stereotypes.
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>
> Anyone know of any writings specifically about this movie?
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> Thanks,
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> Carl
>