According to Jay S. Steinberg at Turner Classic Movies, the film's screenwriter and source playwright Dore Schary, for this film's source Broadway stage play production, " . . . had considered casting Anthony Quayle as FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt] when his wife suggested Bellamy [Ralph Bellamy], who, as fate would have it, lived in the Manhattan apartment building across the street from the Scharys. Within a few hours of the script's delivery, the actor called Schary and wanted to know when rehearsals would start." Schary wrote in his book "Heyday: An Autobiography" (1979): "The next morning the doorbell rang I opened the door and there stood Ralph, a cigarette holder clenched perkily in his mouth, a fedora perched on his head with the front brim turned up, and a broad smile on his face. I grabbed his hand and said, 'Mr. President, Welcome!'."

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