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After his success playing Lincoln in the film and on Broadway, Raymond Massey began to assume the character in real life. He often appeared at social gatherings dressed in Lincoln-esque attire, assuming a Lincoln-like manner and speech. His friend, the playwright George S. Kaufman, observed, "Massey won't be satisfied until someone assassinates him."
As recently as January, 2019, many of the buildings filmed in Eugene, Oregon as Springfield, Illinois, are still in use. The "Great Western" train station is actually the old SP freight station on 5th Street. The "Carson Building" where the election results were projected is the Eugene Electric Station restaurant at 5th and Willamette, and the building opposite from the restaurant which was also filmed, has several shops.
Raymond Massey received an Oscar nomination for playing the title role in this film. 72 years later, Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated, and won, for playing the part in Lincoln (2012). While they were not the first pair of actors to receive Oscar nominations for playing the same role, 72 years does mark the longest difference in time between such nominations. The only pairs of actors to win Oscars for the same role are Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, and Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. There has yet to be a pair of actors to win Oscars for the same role in the same category.
Film debut of Herbert Rudley.
Features Raymond Massey's only Oscar nominated performance.
"Sarah Bush Lincoln: Wherever you go, whatever you do, you remember what the Good Book Says: "The world passeth, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." Abraham Lincoln: I'll remember, maw."
"Mentor Graham: Well, Abe, there are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics."
