Written by Irving Stone, whose popular biographical novels would inspire such films as Vincente Minnelli's 'Lust for Life' and Carol Reed's 'The Agony and Ecstasy'; 'Magnificent Doll' traces Madison's journey to the White House from her youth in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War to the famed episode in which, during the Battle of Bladensburg, she refused the leave her exalted residence without a portrait of George Washington. In between she is wooed by two great men of American politics, Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and his colleague, James Madison (Burgess Meredith).
Brand new audio commentary by writers and film historians David Del Valle and Sloan De Forest Ginger Rogers: Following Her Own Lead, a brand new visual essay by film critic and novelist Farran Smith Nehme on the actor's dramatic roles
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