The President's Lady (1953) 480p - Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston - Biography, Drama

YouTube movies ^ | 1953 | 20th Century Fox

[SmokingJoe]

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

One of my all time favorite movies, about one of my favorite presidents Andrew Jackson, featuring two of my all time favorite actors, Charlton Heston and Susan Hayward.
Watch it if you have some time. Worth watching

1 hr 37 minutes.

[SmokingJoe]

Hollywood really had some classy actors back then, as compared to the trash we have today in Hollywood.

[Thank You Rush]

Thanks for posting..I will watch for sure!!!!! I remember this..

[RicocheT]

I love the old movies. Are there sites on the Internet where you can find free old movies, as I don’t want to pay a streaming service such as Turner or Netflix.

[Wonder Warthog]

Shucks...Netflix doesn’t have it on DVD.

[OttawaFreeper]

Shame that Susan Hayward got sick and died at that early age (in about 1975 in her late ‘50s IIRC) from lung cancer (in no doubt due to her heavy smoking).

[Tupelo]

I remember this movie well from my youth. I also remember how disappointed I was after watching the movie and then later seeing what the real Rachel Jackson looked liked compared to the reel Rachel Jackson (Susan Hayward)

[Migraine]

How I wish they could go back in time and film it in color. I can’t imagine the executive decision that put Susan Hayward’s flaming red hair into b & w.

[Seruzawa]

Color was a very expensive process back then.

[Seruzawa]

The entire movie is free on youtube.

[chrisinoc]

Heston also played Andrew Jackson the The Buccaneer (1958). The goof was Heston looked liked Jackson in his 60s when the real Jackson was only 47 in 1815.

[CatHerd]

Well, to be fair, the real Rachel Jackson's portrait was done when she was much older. She died before her husband took office and her niece, Emily Donelson, served as White House hostess and First Lady during his presidency. If Rachel looked anything like Emily in her youth, she wasn't at all bad looking:

[Migraine]

I suppose it was expensive to do color in that era. And yet, of the 20 or so movies I saw in 1953-54, as a kid, I only remember 1 that was in b & w. All the rest were color. They were westerns, knights in armor and swashbucklers mainly.

We were in walking distance of the “Community House” where they showed the movies and they only cost 10 cents for the afternoon showings.

[SmokingJoe]

Charlton Heston played Andrew Jackson twice, once in 1953’s The President's Lady and again in this Cecil B. DeMille-shaped slice of historical hokum, The Buccaneer (1958).
Second time out there's less smooching and more shooting, with the future head of state battling the British for New Orleans in the war of 1812.

[SmokingJoe]

I wish I’d sen your post before I made my post # 13.
LOL!

[SmokingJoe]

They have developed computer technology to convert black and white films to color.
Seen plenty of black and white films/tv series converted to color.

How Are Black And White Films Colorized?

https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/how-are-black-and-white-films-colorized.html

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting! I had not heard of this movie. Just started it and it looks very good. Andrew was square dancing with Rachel when her husband showed up. Fireworks to ensue!

Too bad it’s encoded at only 480p.

[skr]

From Wikipedia:

‘Rachel attracted much attention from suitors because she was very beautiful as a young woman, described by a contemporary as having “lustrous black eyes, dark glossy hair, full red lips, brunette complexion, though of brilliant coloring, [and] a sweet oval face rippling with smiles and dimples.”[3]’

[Library Lady]

Thank you. I appreciate really good older movies that are free.

[Seruzawa]

I dont remember 10 cents. Used to get in for a quarter though.

Not all directors liked to use color back then. And it might be that they were making a B picture. Many of todays beloved classics were B films.

[mairdie]

A Guy Named Joe, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, for example, in b/w.