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James Roosevelt II (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991), who preferred to be called "Jimmy", was an American Congressman, an official Secretary to the President, a Democratic Party activist, and businessman. He received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Marine Corps officer during World War II. Roosevelt was the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was born in New York City at 125 East 36th Street. He attended the Potomac School and the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and the Groton School in Massachusetts. At Groton, he rowed and played football, as well as serving as a prefect in his senior year. After graduation in 1926, he attended Harvard University, where he rowed with the freshman and junior varsity crews. At Harvard he followed some family traditions, joining the Signet Society and Hasty Pudding Club, of which both his father and his maternal granduncle and paternal fifth cousin once removed, President Theodore Roosevelt, had been members, as well as the Fly Club, which his father had joined, and Institute of the 1770. He graduated from Harvard in 1930 and was elected permanent treasurer of his class.
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American folk singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.
He began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched his own radio show The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularised traditional folk-songs. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, and then became a major star of CBS radio. In the 1960s he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughing." A popular film actor through the late 1940s and 1950s, Ives's best-known roles in that medium included parts in So Dear to My Heart and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ives was a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scouts of America.
Ives was born near Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois near Newton, Illinois, to Levi "Frank" Ives (1880–1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" (née White) (1882–1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others. One day Ives was singing in the garden with his mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad "Barbara Allen" and impressed both his uncle and the audience.
James Roosevelt Documentary Intro
LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH JAMES ROOSEVELT
What's My Line? - James Roosevelt; Patrice Munsel; Jonathan Winters [panel] (Feb 2, 1958)
INTERVIEW WITH JAMES ROOSEVELT - SOUND
James Roosevelt Talks About Social Security
What's My Line? - Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy; James Roosevelt [panel] (Mar 16, 1958)
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What's My Line? - Ingemar Johansson; Burl Ives; Martin Gabel & James Roosevelt [panel] (Feb 1, 1959)
JAMES ROOSEVELT WEDS - NO SOUND
James Roosevelt Jr
Actors: Jane Alexander (actress), Kathy Bates (actress), David Paymer (actor), Frank Hoyt Taylor (actor), Robert Hatch (actor), Steve Warren (actor), Tim Blake Nelson (actor), Mike Pniewski (actor), Wilbur Fitzgerald (actor), Danny Nelson (actor), Steve Coulter (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Matt Malloy (actor), Mark Gordon (producer), Cynthia Nixon (actress),
Plot: A look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-presidency days, from his being diagnosed with polio one year after his unsuccessful bid for the White House as presidential nominee James Cox's running mate, through his rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Ga., to his nomination of Al Smith for Democratic Presidential candidate in 1928.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, adultery, ambition, automobile-hand-controls, ballet-dancer, bicycle, boat, boll-weevilActors: Kabir Bedi (actor), Michael Ensign (actor), Freddie Jones (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Jean Stapleton (actress), Joyce Van Patten (actress), John Addison (composer), John Erman (director), Gail Strickland (actress), Noel Taylor (costume designer), Richard McKenzie (actor), Coral Browne (actress), Kenneth Kimmins (actor), Peter White (actor), David Newhouse (editor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Actors: Edward Binns (actor), Kim Hunter (actress), Kenneth Welsh (actor), George R. Robertson (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Olympia Dukakis (actress), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), James Karen (actor), Michael Gross (actor), Cec Linder (actor), Ken Pogue (actor), Terry O'Quinn (actor), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Tom Harvey (actor), Sylvia Sidney (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: David Susskind (producer), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Priscilla Pointer (actress), Lindsay Crouse (actress), Jane Alexander (actress), John Beal (actor), Anna Lee (actress), Mark Harmon (actor), Ray Baker (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Blair Brown (actress), Robert Banas (actor), John Barry (composer), Donald Moffat (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Michael Kahn (editor), David Susskind (producer), John Barry (composer), Daniel Petrie (director), Anna Lee (actress), Irene Tedrow (actress), William Phipps (actor), Jane Alexander (actress), Lindsay Crouse (actress), Linda Purl (actress), Mark Harmon (actor), Harry Holcombe (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Vaughn Taylor (actor), Helen Kleeb (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,Actors: Paul Kruger (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Jack Perrin (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Ben Erway (actor), William F. Haddock (actor), John McKee (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Francis De Sales (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Walter Sande (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor),
Plot: The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
Keywords: 1920s, ambition, bare-chested-male, based-on-play, bathrobe, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, campaign, children, cigarette-smoking