The Declaration of Independence (1938)
History · Drama
Overview
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Cast
- John Litel as Thomas Jefferson
- Ted Osborne as Caesar Rodney
- Rosella Towne as Betsy Kramer
- Richard Bond as Thomas Lynch Jr.
- Owen King as Edward Rutledge
- Lionel Belmore as The Innkeeper (uncredited)
- Sidney Bracey as Congress Clerk (uncredited)
- Tom Chatterton as Richard Henry Lee (uncredited)
- Hal Craig as Man Shooting at Rodney (uncredited)
- Henry Hall as John Hancock (uncredited)