where she portrayed the just-evil-enough stepmother. With, she co-starred in a Focus Features release that featured the offbeat casting of Bill Murray as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.said the choice "takes a few minutes to get used to, but once he settles into the role of the 32nd president, the idiosyncratic comic actor does a wonderfully jaunty job.
In 1939, Roosevelt was trying to develop popular support for aiding the British in the looming world war, and presenting the king as a "regular guy" who ate hot dogs was part of his plan. "In the correspondence that went between the White House and the British Foreign Office," says David Woolner, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, "the president says he wanted to show the American people the royals' 'essential democracy.
This story first appeared in a November stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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