This black and white documentary assembles photos and newsreel footage of Eleanor Roosevelt, exploring her changing roles as political advisor, First Lady, and international woman of influence. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady.

Eleanor Roosevelt speaks while wearing a cap with a Red Cross. She tells an off-color anecdote about Guadalcanal (0:09). Opening credits (1:20). A portrait of Eleanor (1:35). Title card: “Biography” (25:13). Mike Wallace introduces himself (1:42). Montage of Mrs. Roosevelt cheerfully shaking hands and accepting gifts. She looks on as a girl sketches (2:10). Laughing with young girls (2:36). Waving to a large audience (2:41). Dissolve to a portrait of Eleanor as a child (2:50). With her mustachioed father (3:12). In an unusual hat. Dissolve to adolescence with a frilly dress and a horse (3:21). Uncle Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt poses with family, rows a boat (3:33). Stills: Eleanor the young adult in portrait, 1902 (3:58). Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a young man in a top hat and again in a straw hat, bow tie and striped vest at Harvard (4:09). Eleanor smiles broadly at age 19, sits with her husband (4:21). Sara Roosevelt. The marriage party (4:37). President Theodore Roosevelt attends the wedding, shakes hands (4:58). F.D.R. tips a bowler hat circa his 1910 New York State Senate election, shaking hands (5:35). James Cox with F.D.R. on a speeding boat (5:56). Cars parade the campaigning politicians (6:10). A swarm of straw hats (6:19). F.D.R. accepts a gavel (6:25). The Roosevelt children and dog. F.D.R. smokes a pipe in a wicker chair (6:40). An older F.D.R. supports himself with a cane (7:00). Sara, Eleanor, with aid Louis Howe (7:06). A society dinner party. Eleanor speaks, Franklin shakes the hand of Al Smith (8:10). The Roosevelts sit in a car together following F.D.R. ‘s 1928 election win as New York Governor (7:51). Eleanor, center, with F.D.R., in a mortarboard cap, laughing with a Cardinal. (8:19). Eleanor at 44. Newsreel footage. A ribbon cutting, a ship christening, holding a baby (8:34). F.D.R. circa 1932 during his presidential campaign run. Eleanor shakes hands from the caboose of a train. (9:02). A blur of passing faces and waving arms (9:30). Eleanor on a nationwide tour, waving from trains and smiling. Cooking hot dogs on a stick fireside (10:20). Touring a mine with headlamps underground (10:43). Elderly men in wheelchairs and hospital beds (10:49). Ballroom dancing, Eleanor changes partners. She poses for reporters and models fashion (11:07). Eleanor’s byline on her syndicated newspaper column, “My Day” (12:17). On horseback (12:19). The Washington Monument and the National Mall. Crowds watching singer Marian Anderson perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (12:37). Eleanor testifies before a committee and WJSV microphones (13:01). Knitting at Franklin’s side (13:22). Circa 1942, touring damage to the British Homefront and a military hospital (13:52). F.D.R. circa his 4th term election win of 1944 (14:35). Newspaper headlines of the New York World-Telegram: “Roosevelt Dies Suddenly” (14:46). Funeral parade. Mourners and pallbearers carry a casket with a U.S. flag, express condolences (14:53). President Truman and Eleanor. (15:51). Eleanor addresses Russian delegates at the United Nations General Assembly. Russians walk out (17:18). Touring refugee camps in postwar Europe (18:19). Introducing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 (18:35). Under a sign: “Pan-American World Airlines,” shaking hands (19:44). At a dinner table with Adlai Stevenson II, then with John F. Kennedy in the oval office (20:53). Adlai Stevenson informs reporters of Eleanor’s tuberculosis (21:50). A church cemetery and funeral with JFK in attendance (22:06). Photo portrait montage (22:53). JFK signs a Congressional Act establishing the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation (24:01). Mike Wallace (24:42). End Credits, Directed by Alan Landsburg (25:02).

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