Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan

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.
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    New York City, New York, USA
    Birthday
    7/6/1921
The Dark Wave
The Dark Wave
0
Family Fundamentals
Family Fundamentals
4.2
Shadow on the Wall
Shadow on the Wall
6.6
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain
6.1
Zappa
Zappa
7.3
The Next Voice You Hear...
The Next Voice You Hear...
5.7
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
0
Hellcats of the Navy
Hellcats of the Navy
4.3
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
4.9
It's a Big Country
It's a Big Country
5.3
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
5.5
Talk About a Stranger
Talk About a Stranger
6.1
Crash Landing
Crash Landing
5
East Side, West Side
East Side, West Side
7
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
0
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
7.1
Shadow in the Sky
Shadow in the Sky
6.6
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats
0
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries
0
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians
0
Night Into Morning
Night Into Morning
5.8
How to Win the TV Debate
How to Win the TV Debate
0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
The Road to Mass Incarceration
0
Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
0
La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
0
The Killing of America
The Killing of America
7.2
HyperNormalisation
HyperNormalisation
7.4
The Making of Trump
The Making of Trump
4.4
Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie
7
The Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
The Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
0
The Second Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
The Second Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
0
The State Funeral of Richard Nixon
The State Funeral of Richard Nixon
0
The State Funeral of Ronald Reagan
The State Funeral of Ronald Reagan
0
The Reagan Show
The Reagan Show
6.3
All the Presidents' Wives
All the Presidents' Wives
1
Reagan
Reagan
6
Inside the White House
Inside the White House
7.3
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
10
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9
Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
1
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
7.7
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
7.3
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
8.2
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger
6.6
The Doctor and the Girl
The Doctor and the Girl
6
Reversing Roe
Reversing Roe
7.3
Get Me Roger Stone
Get Me Roger Stone
7
How to Win the US Presidency
How to Win the US Presidency
6.2
Our Nixon
Our Nixon
6.7
Reagan
Reagan
6.1
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
6.4
The Way I See It
The Way I See It
7.7
The House I Live In
The House I Live In
7.4
Stand-up Reagan
0
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
7
The Chemical People
0
13th
13th
7.9
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
6.8
Joan Rivers at the BBC
Joan Rivers at the BBC
0
A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
0
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