Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin ...
"Eleanor," as brought to life by Jean Stapleton on Arena's Kreeger stage, is a historical novel reincarnated as a stage play. If that sounds a tad metaphysical, well, that's only fitting. "I lived in ...
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