A precious souvenir by Terry Teachout

With America's theaters shuttered, I plan to devote some of my upcoming Wall Street Journal drama columns to screen versions of important stage plays of the past. I'm starting off with John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation of Robert Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Here's an excerpt. *  *  * Time was when Broadway's hits were routinely converted by Hollywood into big-budget films. As often as not, thou…

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