Tennessee Johnson (1942)

• 65%
• 1942
• Drama
• History
• William Dieterle
• Van Heflin
• Lionel Barrymore
• Ruth Hussey

This biopic focuses on Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached. Initially an uneducated drifter who stumbles upon a job as a tailor in a Tennessee town, Johnson is taught to read by librarian and future wife, Eliza. Eliza convinces him to enter a local election, and, from there, Johnson rises swiftly. However, after inheriting the presidency in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, he finds himself on unsteady political ground.