Who was the first US president to appear in the movies?

A. Grover Cleveland was the first U.S. president film star. In 1895, Alexander Black came to Washington, D.C., and asked the president to appear in A Capital Courtship. Cleveland agreed to be filmed while signing a bill into law. A Capital Courtship was a huge hit on the Lyceum circuit.

That very well may be...but I am asking which president was the first president to be in a MOVIE. Keep diggin....okay?

The Internet Public Library says exactly what Mozart does. Cleveland was in a movie. The film had a plot, namely, a courtship between a young man and a woman. Why do you stress the word Movie ? The film was a movie by the standard definition. The term was "photoplay" then, but it was still a movie. Actually, Cleveland appeared in at least one other film after that one. If you have one earlier, please share it, with, of course, a source.

[This message was edited by Doriangreyed on 08-08-03 at 02:37 PM.]

I stressed movie because that was how the initital trivia question was sent to me. And I meant movie and not documentary which is what I thought "A Capital Courtship" was.

Apparently my daily trivia question sent to my pager is incorrect. The answer listed was Theodore Roosevelt. One thing is for sure - he certainly had more movies than Cleveland!

Roosevelt's movies

Your pager is your source? Boy, did you get a wrong number there. Even McKinley was in movies before Roosevelt.

No...my pager is not my source...it is my mode of transmission.

And I bet you all thought it would be Ronald Reagan!