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LBJ: The Early Years

Year:

1987

Duration:

155 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Peter Werner

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1987-02-01

Cast

Actor

Character

Morgan Brittany

Randy Quaid

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Patti LuPone

Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor Johnson

Pat Hingle

Sam Rayburn

R.G. Armstrong

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

Barry Corbin

Judge Alvin J. Wirtz

Robin Curtis

Jacqueline Kennedy

Charles Frank

John F. Kennedy

James F. Kelly

Bobby Kennedy

Kevin McCarthy

Joseph Kennedy

Jack Blessing

Billy Bob

Tony Frank

Jack Garner

Anne Haney

Rebekah Baines Johnson

Jerry Hardin

Earl

Don Moss

Hubert Humphrey

Joan Prather

Sandy Ward

Thomas Jefferson Taylor

Ian Wolfe

Royal Dano

Southern Senator

Gary Bayer

Bruce Gray

Michael Greene

Governor Coke R. Stevenson

Joan Welles

Frances Conroy

Woody Eney

Ron Hayes

Royce Wallace

Bob Aaron

Dave Adams

Lynn Bigonger

Margaret Blye

Jim Boeke

Tommy Bush

David Carlile

Rudy Challenger

George Christy

Terrence Evans

William Fair

Kate Finlayson

Al Hansen

Ted Hayden

Linda Hoy

Tom Maier

Kenneth Marsten

(as Kenny Marsten)

Ken McGee

Duncan McLeod

Burr Middleton

Leslie Morris

Merritt Olsen

Jerry Potter

Dan Priest

Buddy Quaid

Berkley Quinn

Celeste Simpson-Boyd

Angela Skinner

Bill Smillie

Sonja Svenson

Walter Sylvest

Tamara Taylor

Michael Dan Wagner

Tim Ware

Bob Wills Jr.

Lesley Woods

Frances Bay

Effie Pattillo

Corey Burton

Newsreel Announcer (voice)

Steven Clawson

Doorman

Sam Longoria

Congressman

Did you know?

Trivia

Uses actual recordings and arrangements of music from Wild Rovers (1971) for opening titles music.

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Goofs

When LBJ goes to the hospital to visit his sick wife and is speaking to Sam Rayburn, there are MasterCard and Visa stickers on the glass door behind him. These credit cards did not exist in the 1940s.

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The "1955" segment opens with LBJ as Senate majority leader, calling White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams to try to get President Eisenhower to support an effort to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy. In fact, the Senate censured McCarthy in December 1954, when the Republicans still controlled the upper chamber and Johnson was still minority leader.

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There are two clear errors during the JFK assassination sequence. LBJ and Lady Bird arrive at Parkland Hospital in a black Cadillac limousine sedan. In fact, they were riding in a light colored Lincoln convertible. An American flag covers JFK's coffin when it is removed from the ambulance at Love Field and when Jackie is setting next to it on Air Force One. It was not covered with a flag until it left Bethesda Naval Hospital early the next day.

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