Nancy Reagan

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Davis' film career began with small supporting roles in two films that were released in 1949, The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford and East Side, West Side starring Barbara Stanwyck. She played a child psychiatrist in the film noir Shadow on the Wall (1950) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott; her performance was called "beautiful and convincing" by New York Times critic A. H. Weiler. She co-starred in 1950's The Next Voice You Hear..., playing a pregnant housewife who hears the voice of God from her radio. Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that "Nancy Davis [is] delightful as [a] gentle, plain, and understanding wife." In 1951, Davis appeared in Night into Morning, her favorite screen role, a study of bereavement starring Ray Milland. Crowther said that Davis "does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief," while another noted critic, The Washington Post's Richard L. Coe, said Davis "is splendid as the understanding widow." MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year. She soon starred in the science fiction film Donovan's Brain (1953); Crowther said that Davis, playing the role of a possessed scientist's "sadly baffled wife," "walked through it all in stark confusion" in an "utterly silly" film. In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy (1957), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair, and appeared in a film for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called "a housewife who came along for the ride." Another reviewer, however, stated that Davis plays her part satisfactorily, and "does well with what she has to work with." Author Garry Wills has said that Davis was generally underrated as an actress because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance. In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: promotional material from MGM in 1949 said that her "greatest ambition" was to have a "successful happy marriage"; decades later, in 1975, she would say, "I was never really a career woman but [became one] only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry. I couldn't sit around and do nothing, so I became an actress." Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a "reliable" and "solid" performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors. After her final film, Crash Landing (1958), Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas, such as the Zane Grey Theatre episode "The Long Shadow" (1961), where she played opposite Ronald Reagan, as well as Wagon Train and The Tall Man, until she retired as an actress in 1962.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1921-07-06
  • event Death Date 2016-03-06
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place New York City, New York, USA
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The Dark Wave

1956-06-01

4.2

Family Fundamentals

2002-05-26

6.6

Shadow on the Wall

1950-05-19

6.1

Donovan's Brain

1953-09-30

7.3

Zappa

2020-11-27

5.7

The Next Voice You Hear...

1950-06-29

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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

1984-01-01

4.3

Hellcats of the Navy

1957-05-01

4.9

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress

2021-02-16

5.3

It's a Big Country

1951-11-20

5.5

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

2007-04-11

6.1

Talk About a Stranger

1952-04-18

5

Crash Landing

1958-07-01

7

East Side, West Side

1949-12-22

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Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

2004-06-22

7.1

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

2010-05-09

6.6

Shadow in the Sky

1952-07-18

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Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries

1984-01-01

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Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats

1984-01-01

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Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians

1984-01-01

5.8

Night Into Morning

1951-06-08

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How to Win the TV Debate

2010-04-12

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The Road to Mass Incarceration

2018-06-13

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Ronald Reagan: An American Journey

2011-02-01

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La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993

2008-01-01

7.3

The Killing of America

1981-09-05

7.5

HyperNormalisation

2016-10-25

3.7

The Making of Trump

2015-11-30

7.2

Portrait of Jennie

1948-12-25

6.5

The Reagan Show

2017-04-22

1

All the Presidents' Wives

2008-06-24

6

Reagan

1998-02-23

7.3

Inside the White House

1996-01-01

10

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

2013-09-12

9

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990-06-04

1

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

2010-02-06

7.7

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

2017-08-21

7.3

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

1990-07-18

6

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1988-11-22

8.2

The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special

1988-09-15

6.7

Kill the Messenger

2014-10-09

5.7

The Doctor and the Girl

1949-09-29

7.3

Reversing Roe

2018-09-01

7.1

Get Me Roger Stone

2017-04-23

6.2

How to Win the US Presidency

2016-08-01

6.7

Our Nixon

2013-01-23

6.1

Reagan

2011-02-07

6.4

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

2019-09-29

7.7

The Way I See It

2020-09-18

7.4

The House I Live In

2012-10-05

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Stand-up Reagan

2004-09-07

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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

2010-11-09

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The Chemical People

1983-11-02

7.9

13th

2016-10-07

6.8

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

2021-01-11

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Joan Rivers at the BBC

2024-09-08

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A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan

1956-12-23

6.5

Grass

1999-09-15

7.8

Tupac: Resurrection

2003-11-14

6.9

American Made

2017-08-18

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Diff'rent Strokes

1978-11-03

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6.3

The Tall Man

1960-09-10

7.5

87th Precinct

1961-09-25

7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

3.3

Climax!

1954-10-07

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

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The Queen at 80

2006-04-09

7.3

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

2023-04-03

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6.3

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

8.1

Narcos

2015-08-28

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Entertainment Tonight

1981-09-15

6.4

The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

2013-04-14

8.5

Apostrophes

1975-01-10

6.7

The Family

2019-08-09

6.3

Wagon Train

1957-09-18

5.3

First Ladies

2020-10-04

5.3

Great Performances

1971-01-28

6.4

The Reagans

2020-11-15

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01