Sally Field Joins Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln"

Newsweek reports that Sally Field has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's upcoming Abraham Lincoln biopic, entitled "Lincoln." It is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," with Liam Neeson set to play the President and Field as his wife, Mary Todd.

Three of her four kids didn't live to adulthood, and her husband was shot as he held her hand. If anyone ever deserved to go crazy, it was Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the 16th U.S. president. "She had the most tragic public life in American history," says James Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill.

The site mentions that in February 2009, it will be the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.