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Montgomery Blair Coming to a Screen Near You

Will Silver Spring's own Montgomery Blair (the man, not the high school) make an appearance next year in director Steven Spielberg's motion picture "Lincoln"?

Recently a research company working on Steven Spielberg's $100M motion picture Lincoln, to be released Dec. 2012, contacted me. They are looking for an image of Montgomery Blair's "crest," a heraldic design that I've never come across.

The question that begs to be asked though is does this mean that Blair, Lincoln's postmaster general from 1861-1864, will be in the film that is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln? Montgomery is well represented in the book along with his father and brother, Frances (senior and junior), mother Eliza, brother James, and sister Elizabeth.

To my knowledge the last depiction of Montgomery Blair...at least on the small screen...was in 1955 when Mack Williams (I know, who?) played him in Lincoln's Doctor's Dog, an episode of the short-lived television anthology series Screen Directors Playhouse. Although Williams did not have a single line of dialogue, he was a spiting image of Blair so some casting agent did their job well.

Who do you think Spielberg should cast as Montgomery Blair?

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