Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Broadway Digital Archive
Five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris re-creates her 1972 award-winning Broadway portrayal in this powerful and touching look at the final 17 years in the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, widow to the martyred president. Based on real events, the production casts a sad and sympathetic light onto this frighteningly complicated woman. Mary Lincoln scavenges desperately for money, loses a cherished son to consumption, is branded a lunatic and committed to a mental institution, and spends her final days fleeing from the preying eyes of the public and a scandal-hungry press. Cast: Julie Harris, Michael Cristofer, Robby Benson, Patrick Duffy, Jack Furlong, Linda Kelsey, Kurtis Lee, Macon McCalman, Pricilla Morrill, Denver Pyle, Ford Rainer, Jay M. Riley, Billy Simpson, Royce Wallace, Kate Wilkinson. (130 minutes)