A Failure at Fifty

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.

Cast

Edmund Glover

as Abe Lincoln

Mary Anderson

as Ann Rutledge

Truman Bradley

as Lincoln's Friend

Carey Wilson

as Narrator (voice)

Margaret Bert

as Ann's Rutledge's Mother (uncredited)

George Chesebro

as Creditor (uncredited)

Naomi Childers

as Partner (uncredited)

Jules Cowles

as Member of the Senate (uncredited)

Edward Coxen

as Farmer (uncredited)

Olin Francis

as Trader (uncredited)

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