The war was worldwide, but his heart was somewhere else entirely.
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Acting
Duvall's Eisenhower: gruff, vulnerable, and weirdly sexy?
Production
1979 network TV somehow made war rooms look cozy.
Costume
Lee Remick's wartime wardrobe deserves its own spin-off.
Director
Boris Sagal
Robert Duvall
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lee Remick
Kay Summersby
Dana Andrews
Gen. George C. Marshall
J.D. Cannon
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Paul Gleason
Gen. Ernest "Tex" Lee
Laurence Luckinbill
Maj. Richard Arnold
Darren McGavin
Gen. George S. Patton
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
Ian Richardson
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
William Schallert
Gen. Mark Clark
Wolfgang Preiss
FM Alfred Jodl
Bonnie Bartlett
Mamie Eisenhower
Charles H. Gray
Gen. Lucian Truscott
Lowell Thomas
Self
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Duvall spent weeks studying Eisenhower's speech patterns, then mostly abandoned them for his own gravelly instincts.
The real Kay Summersby's memoirs were published posthumously and far more explicit; ABC executives reportedly demanded 'tasteful restraint.'
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