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Also known as Ike: The War Years

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, mostly focusing on his time as Supreme Commander in Europe during World War II. The screenplay, written by Melville Shavelson, was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair.

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Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby. Film editors John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations.

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Robert Duvall: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vernon Dobtcheff: Gen. Charles de Gaulle

Darren McGavin: Gen. George S. Patton

Lee Remick: Kay Summersby

Wensley Pithey: Winston Churchill

Terence Alexander: Gen. Arthur Tedder

Dana Andrews: Gen. George C. Marshall

Richard Herd: Gen. Omar Bradley

Paul Gleason: Capt. Ernest "Tex" Lee

Bonnie Bartlett: Mamie Eisenhower

William Schallert: Gen. Mark Clark

Whit Bissell: Admiral

William Boyett: Gen. Ward Hoffenberg

K. Callan: Mrs Westerfield

J.D. Cannon: Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

David de Keyser: Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke

Don Fellows: Gen. Carl Spaatz

Ian Richardson: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery

Mark Kingston: Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory

Wolfgang Preiss: Gen. Alfred Jodl

Martin Jarvis: King George VI

Maurice Marsac: Gen. Henri Giraud

Clifford Earl: Lord Louis Mountbatten

Francis Matthews: Noël Coward

Stephen Roberts: Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Also known as Ike: The War Years

Notable quotes

“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
— Apocryphal
“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”
— A speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner (3 July 1951). It is currently on display on the wall of Eisenhower Hall at the USMA at West Point in New York. Eisenhower Memorial Commission
“You have got to have something in which to believe. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best.”
— Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund (April 29, 1954). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021.
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
— Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021.
“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
— TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959)
“[James R. Killian] saw Eisenhower a few months before his death. The former President asked about "my scientists" and said, "You know, Jim, this bunch of scientists was one of the few groups that I encountered in Washington who seemed to be there to help the country and not themselves."”
— Quoted in Rabi, Scientist and Citizen (2000) by John S. Rigden, p. 251

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