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Nancy Reagan
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Acting
Birthday
1921-07-06,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

7

The Dark Wave
1956-06-01

Family Fundamentals

4.4

Family Fundamentals
2002-05-26

Shadow on the Wall

6.7

Shadow on the Wall
1950-05-19

Donovan's Brain

6.2

Donovan's Brain
1953-09-30

7.2

Zappa
2020-11-27

The Next Voice You Hear...

5.8

The Next Voice You Hear...
1950-06-29

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

0

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984-01-01

Hellcats of the Navy

4.8

Hellcats of the Navy
1957-05-01

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress

4.9

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
2021-02-16

It's a Big Country

5.9

It's a Big Country
1951-11-20

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

5.5

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
2007-04-11

Talk About a Stranger

6.2

Talk About a Stranger
1952-04-18

6.1

Crash Landing
1958-07-01

East Side, West Side

7.1

East Side, West Side
1949-12-22

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

0

Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
2004-06-22

Shadow in the Sky

7

Shadow in the Sky
1952-07-18

Night Into Morning

6

Night Into Morning
1951-06-08

How to Win the TV Debate

0

How to Win the TV Debate
2010-04-12

The Road to Mass Incarceration

0

The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018-06-13

Ronald Reagan: An American Journey

0

Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
2011-02-01

La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993

0

La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
2008-01-01

HyperNormalisation

7.479

HyperNormalisation
2016-10-25

The Making of Trump

4.4

The Making of Trump
2015-11-30

Portrait of Jennie

7.2

Portrait of Jennie
1948-12-25

The Reagan Show

6.5

The Reagan Show
2017-04-22

All the Presidents' Wives

1

All the Presidents' Wives
2008-06-24

7.667

Reagan
1998-02-23

Inside the White House

7.3

Inside the White House
1996-01-01

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

8.3

The Presidents' Gatekeepers
2013-09-12

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

8.5

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990-06-04

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

1

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
2010-02-06

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

7.7

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
2017-08-21

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

7.2

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990-07-18

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

6.5

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987-03-13

The Flintstone Kids'

7.9

The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
1988-09-15

Kill the Messenger

6.629

Kill the Messenger
2014-10-09

The Doctor and the Girl

5.9

The Doctor and the Girl
1949-09-29

7.3

Reversing Roe
2018-09-01

Get Me Roger Stone

7.1

Get Me Roger Stone
2017-04-23

How to Win the US Presidency

6.2

How to Win the US Presidency
2016-08-01

6.4

Our Nixon
2013-01-23

6.1

Reagan
2011-02-07

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

6.1

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019-09-29

The Way I See It

7.8

The Way I See It
2020-09-18

The House I Live In

7.556

The House I Live In
2012-10-05

Stand-up Reagan

9

Stand-up Reagan
2004-09-07

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

7

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010-11-09

The Chemical People

0

The Chemical People
1983-11-02

7.8

13th
2016-10-07

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

6.8

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021-01-11

Joan Rivers at the BBC

0

Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024-09-08

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

0

A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
1956-12-23

6.563

Grass
1999-09-15

Tupac: Resurrection

7.9

Tupac: Resurrection
2003-11-14

6.902

American Made
2017-08-18

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

5.5

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018-03-01

Henry Fonda for President

7

Henry Fonda for President
2025-01-10

The Killing of America

7.2

The Killing of America
1981-09-05

7

Vito
2011-10-14

Commitment to Life

0

Commitment to Life
2023-02-10

6

Guts and Glory
2002-05-28

I Don't Even Like Apple Pie...

0

I Don't Even Like Apple Pie...
1989-03-04

All Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan

0

All Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan
1985-12-08

Breakdown: 1975

6.9

Breakdown: 1975
2025-12-18

Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool

7.552

Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool
2026-09-08

Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President

0

Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President
1981-03-26

Diff'rent Strokes

7.1

Diff'rent Strokes
1978-11-03

General Electric Theater

6.8

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

6.9

The Tall Man
1960-09-10

7.8

87th Precinct
1961-09-25

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

3.8

Climax!
1954-10-07

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

6.2

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

The Queen at 80

0

The Queen at 80
2006-04-09

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

7.5

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023-04-03

General Electric Theater

6.8

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

General Electric Theater

6.8

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

General Electric Theater

6.8

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

8.083

Narcos
2015-08-28

Entertainment Tonight

4.3

Entertainment Tonight
1981-09-15

The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

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

6.6

Wagon Train
1957-09-18

5.3

First Ladies
2020-10-04

Great Performances

6.1

Great Performances
1971-01-28

6.5

The Reagans
2020-11-15

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.562

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

America Who Are You?

4

America Who Are You?
2026-06-23

Secret Service Secrets

0

Secret Service Secrets
2012-01-29