Directed by:
Frank BorzageScreenplay:
Irving StoneCinematography:
Joseph A. ValentineComposer:
Hans J. SalterCast:
Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Peggy Wood, Stephen McNally, Robert Barrat, Grandon Rhodes, Joseph Forte, George Barrows, Brandon Hurst (more)Plots(1)
Magnificent Doll traces Madison’s journey to the White House from her youth in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War to the famed episode in which, during the Battle of Bladensburg, she refused the leave her exalted residence without a portrait of George Washington. In between she is wooed by two great men of American politics, Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and his colleague, James Madison (Burgess Meredith). (Arrow Academy)
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