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> On Jan 5, 2019, at 10:53 AM, Charles Cogar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Anyone know of any writings specifically about this movie?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Carl
>>