A Failure at Fifty (1940)
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
- Date of release
- 1940-07-01
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Will Jason
Casting
- Edmund Glover — Abe Lincoln
- Mary Anderson — Ann Rutledge
- Truman Bradley — Lincoln's Friend
- Carey Wilson — Narrator (voice)
- Margaret Bert — Ann's Rutledge's Mother (uncredited)
- George Chesebro — Creditor (uncredited)
- Naomi Childers — Partner (uncredited)
- Jules Cowles — Member of the Senate (uncredited)
- Edward Coxen — Farmer (uncredited)
- Olin Francis — Trader (uncredited)
- Edward Hearn — Partner (uncredited)
- Claire McDowell — Minor Role (uncredited)
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