Will's dad-OK Senator Clem Rogers died in 1911-but in this film,he miraculously defies death into the 1930's
From what we know from the story,Will never quite lived up to his fathers expectations.Was it necessary to keep Clem around 20 more years to drive that point home?Clem shows up 20yrs after his death to slight Wills money management. Strange.
Good point, though I think the point was probably to let him see his son's (phony?) nomination for president, after which he slips, grumbling, back into his moldy grave.
shareIt wasn't a "phony" nomination jdsuggs. It was a very real and official "favorite son" nomination, and it put his name on the convention ballot. Delegates were free to vote for him, but "favorite sons" never get more than a very small handful of votes from their own state delegation and nobody expects him to win. Everybody knows it's just a show of respect and affection from the nominee's home state.
I was also a little surprised that this movie would show Will's father still living many years after his death. C'est la vie.
BTW, my wife's maiden name is Suggs. Can I ask where you live and where your family comes from?
Most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right.
We're from Atlanta, Georgia, and have been in Georgia for over a century and a half, but before that, from North Carolina, just like many of the Suggs/Sugg family. Several people in my family are very deeply into genealogy. My dad is one of the most knowledgeable people living on the Suggs line and given one or two clues, can probably place your wife within within three or four feet of her place of birth and tell her all kinds of stuff nobody wants known! (We're all horse thieves, slackers and vagrants).
My regards to you and your wife, and if either of you wants any family information, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] and I'll put you in touch. Seriously, they're always happy to hear from family, however distant.