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Nancy Reagan‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-07-06

Popularity

star3.1

Nancy Reagan

New York City, New York, USA

Nancy Reagan

New York City, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-07-06

Popularity

star3.1

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

The Dark Wave

The Dark Wave‌
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calendar 1956

Family Fundamentals

Family Fundamentals‌
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calendar 2002

Shadow on the Wall

Shadow on the Wall‌
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calendar 1950

Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain‌
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calendar 1953

Zappa

Zappa‌
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calendar 2020

The Next Voice You Hear...

The Next Voice You Hear...‌
star5.7
calendar 1950

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man‌
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calendar 1984

Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy‌
star4.2
calendar 1957

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress‌
star4.9
calendar 2021

It's a Big Country

It's a Big Country‌
star5.3
calendar 1951

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven‌
star5.5
calendar 2007

Talk About a Stranger

Talk About a Stranger‌
star6.1
calendar 1952

Crash Landing

Crash Landing‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side‌
star7.0
calendar 1949

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch‌
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calendar 2004

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Casino Jack and the United States of Money‌
star7.1
calendar 2010

Shadow in the Sky

Shadow in the Sky‌
star6.6
calendar 1952

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats‌
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calendar 1984

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians‌
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calendar 1984

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries

Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries‌
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calendar 1984

Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning‌
star5.8
calendar 1951

How to Win the TV Debate

How to Win the TV Debate‌
star0.0
calendar 2010

The Road to Mass Incarceration

The Road to Mass Incarceration‌
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calendar 2018

Ronald Reagan: An American Journey

Ronald Reagan: An American Journey‌
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calendar 2011

La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993

La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993‌
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calendar 2008

The Killing of America

The Killing of America‌
star7.2
calendar 1981

HyperNormalisation

HyperNormalisation‌
star7.4
calendar 2016

The Making of Trump

The Making of Trump‌
star4.4
calendar 2015

Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie‌
star7.0
calendar 1948

The Inauguration of Ronald Reagan

The Inauguration of Ronald Reagan‌
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calendar 1981

The Second Inauguration of Ronald Reagan

The Second Inauguration of Ronald Reagan‌
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calendar 1985

The State Funeral of Richard Nixon

The State Funeral of Richard Nixon‌
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calendar 1994

The State Funeral of Ronald Reagan

The State Funeral of Ronald Reagan‌
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calendar 2004

The Reagan Show

The Reagan Show‌
star6.3
calendar 2017

All the Presidents' Wives

All the Presidents' Wives‌
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calendar 2008

Reagan

Reagan‌
star6.0
calendar 1998

Inside the White House

Inside the White House‌
star7.3
calendar 1996

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

The Presidents' Gatekeepers‌
star10.0
calendar 2013

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To‌
star9.0
calendar 1990

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime‌
star1.0
calendar 2010

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web‌
star7.7
calendar 2017

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol‌
star7.3
calendar 1990

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life‌
star6.0
calendar 1988

The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special

The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special‌
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calendar 1988

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger‌
star6.6
calendar 2014

The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

Reversing Roe

Reversing Roe‌
star7.3
calendar 2018

Get Me Roger Stone

Get Me Roger Stone‌
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calendar 2017

How to Win the US Presidency

How to Win the US Presidency‌
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calendar 2016

Reagan

Reagan‌
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calendar 2011

Our Nixon

Our Nixon‌
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calendar 2013

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn‌
star6.4
calendar 2019

The Way I See It

The Way I See It‌
star7.7
calendar 2020

The House I Live In

The House I Live In‌
star7.4
calendar 2012

Stand-up Reagan

Stand-up Reagan‌
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calendar 2004

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics‌
star7.0
calendar 2010

The Chemical People

The Chemical People‌
star0.0
calendar 1983

13th

13th‌
star7.9
calendar 2016

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy‌
star6.8
calendar 2021

Joan Rivers at the BBC

Joan Rivers at the BBC‌
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calendar 2024

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

A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Tv Credits

Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes‌
star7.0
calendar 1978

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

The Tall Man

The Tall Man‌
star6.3
calendar 1960

87th Precinct

87th Precinct‌
star7.5
calendar 1961

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The Queen at 80

The Queen at 80‌
star0.0
calendar 2006

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields‌
star7.2
calendar 2023

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Narcos

Narcos‌
star8.0
calendar 2015

Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight‌
star3.5
calendar 1981

The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

The '80s: The Decade That Made Us‌
star6.0
calendar 2013

Apostrophes

Apostrophes‌
star8.5
calendar 1975

The Family

The Family‌
star6.7
calendar 2019

Wagon Train

Wagon Train‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

First Ladies

First Ladies‌
star5.3
calendar 2020

Great Performances

Great Performances‌
star4.9
calendar 1971

The Reagans

The Reagans‌
star7.1
calendar 2020

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson‌
star7.4
calendar 1962