Celebrities and Eleanor Roosevelt celebrate Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's birthday at the White House

Actresses Deanna Durbin, Maureen O'Hara, and Kay Aldridge sit on floor with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Carol Ann Priester, daughter of Wallace Beery, during White House celebration of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's 59th birthday / 2-shot Durbin, wearing a hat with a stringed adornment, stands with writer/announcer Clifton Fadiman / actor Jean Hersholt winks at camera as he lights his pipe; another man stands behind with arm around Hersholt's shoulder / WS Eleanor Roosevelt, now dressed in white with white fur shawl and cuffs, stands with others on dais with birthday cake at the Wardman Park Hotel; Durbin and actress Lana Turner are next to Roosevelt, and young girl Anna Sklepovich, who came for the ceremony as a result of a prank played by her brother but was included anyway, stands at right of Roosevelt / MS Roosevelt cuts the cake, which is bedecked with US flags (microphone at side "AAT, Wardman Park Hotel") // [New York City] the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, takes seat in balcony at the Waldorf-Astoria for the annual Birthday Ball to benefit the March of Dimes / tilt-down shot couples dance at Birthday Ball / CU Sara in balcony / balloon drop from ballroom ceiling