President Franklin Roosevelt Once Dreamed Of Writing Movies

Today in 1882, the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He wound up being America’s longest serving president, but at one point FDR had a very different destiny in mind for himself: he wanted to write screenplays for movies. Plus: we mark the birthday in 1951 of musician Phil Collins with a story of a statue that unintentionally looked just like him.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Patriot, Statesman, and Would-Be Hollywood Screen Writer... (Old Magazine Articles) The President’s Mystery (Futility Closet) Church builds huge baby Jesus statue — that looks like Phil Collins (New York Post) Our Patreon backers are to our show what the Hollywood moguls were to old movies