Sunrise at Campobello (play)

Sunrise at Campobello is a 1958 play by American producer and writer Dore Schary based on U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's struggle with polio.

Others in the cast included Henry Jones as Louis Howe, Mary Fickett as Eleanor Roosevelt; Anne Seymour as Sara Delano Roosevelt and, in his Broadway debut, James Earl Jones.

The play ends with the 1924 Democratic National Convention speech, which catapulted him back into politics after an absence of several years.

[2] Alan Clymer, writing for The Harvard Crimson, noted strong performances by the cast: "Ralph Bellamy portrays Roosevelt with exceptional skill ...

[4] Ralph Bellamy stars in the 1960 film adaptation of Sunrise at Campobello, released by Warner Bros. Dore Schary, who began his career in Hollywood, wrote and produced the film, which, like the stage version, was directed by Smajo Salcin.