11 Feb 2007
Madonnas
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
The Declaration of Independence
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.
Top Billed Cast
John Litel Thomas Jefferson
Ted Osborne Caesar Rodney
Rosella Towne Betsy Kramer
Richard Bond Thomas Lynch Jr.
Owen King Edward Rutledge
Lionel Belmore The Innkeeper (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey Congress Clerk (uncredited)
Tom Chatterton Richard Henry Lee (uncredited)
Hal Craig Man Shooting at Rodney (uncredited)
Henry Hall John Hancock (uncredited)
John Harron Rodney's Messenger (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin Thomas McKean (uncredited)
Charles Frederick Lindsley Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas John Dickinson (uncredited)
William Orlamond Matthew Kramer (uncredited)
Bert Stevens Ratification Meeting Member (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor John Adams (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan George Reed (uncredited)
Walter Walker Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)
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