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Nancy Reagan
Actor
Died March 6, 2016 (94 years)
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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.
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
| 2023 | Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare · as Self |
| 2023 | Commitment to Life · as Self |
| 2023 | Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia · as Self - First Lady Of The United States |
| 2023 | Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed · as Self - First Lady Of The United States |
| 2023 | Margaret Thatcher, l'inoxydable · as Self |
| 2023 | Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre · as Self |
| 2022 | Prince Andrew: Banished · as Self |
| 2022 | Beauty · as Self |
| 2022 | Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Lucy and Desi · as Self |
| 2021 | Kid 90 · as Self |
| 2021 | The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy · as Self |
| 2020 | Everything is one. Except for the 0 · as Self |
| 2020 | Wojnarowicz: F--k You F-ggot F--ker · as Self |
| 2020 | Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | The Reagans (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Television Event · as Self |
| 2020 | Exhumed: A History of Zombies · as Self |
| 2020 | Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something · as Self (wife Of Ronald Reagan) |
| 2020 | First Ladies (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Way I See It · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | LA Originals · as Self |
| 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Where's My Roy Cohn? · as Self |
| 2019 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project · as Self |
| 2019 | The Amazing Johnathan Documentary · as Self |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | The Family (2019) (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Framing John DeLorean · as Self |
| 2019 | Grass is Greener · as Self |
| 2018 | Vice · as Self |
| 2018 | Divide and Conquer · as Self |
| 2018 | Reversing Roe · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind · as Self |
| 2018 | Whitney · as Self |
| 2018 | Hollywood, No Sex Please! · as Self |
| 2017 | White Boy · as Self - First Lady Of The United States |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo · as Self |
| 2017 | American Made · as Self |
| 2017 | Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web · as Herself (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | First Ladies Revealed (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | The Reagan Show · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Get Me Roger Stone · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - In Memoriam |
| 2016 | American Wrestler: The Wizard · as Self |
| 2016 | Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match · as Self |
| 2016 | HyperNormalisation · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | 13th · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | How to Win the US Presidency · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Zero Days · as Self |
| 2015 | The Making of Trump · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Narcos (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies · as Self |
| 2014 | Escobar: Paradise Lost · as Self |
| 2014 | The Culture High · as Self |
| 2014 | Kill the Messenger · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2014 | Täuschung - Die Methode Reagan · as Self |
| 2013 | Plot for Peace · as Self |
| 2013 | The Presidents' Gatekeepers · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | The '80s: The Decade That Made Us (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Shadows of Liberty · as Self - First Lady Of The Usa |
| 2012 | The House I Live In · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2011 | The Decade You Were Born: The 1980's · as Self |
| 2011 | Vito · as Self |
| 2011 | Ronald Reagan: An American Journey · as Self |
| 2011 | Reagan · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Marijuana: A Chronic History · as Self |
| 2010 | I Want Your Money · as Self |
| 2010 | The Special Relationship · as Self |
| 2010 | Casino Jack and the United States of Money · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | The Shock Doctrine · as Self |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story · as Self |
| 2009 | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel · as Self |
| 2009 | White House Revealed · as Self |
| 2008 | N.W.A.: The World's Most Dangerous Group · as Self |
| 2008 | La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project · as Self |
| 2007 | Mr. Untouchable · as Self |
| 2007 | Manufacturing Dissent · as Self |
| 2007 | Balls of Fury · as Self |
| 2007 | Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven · as Self |
| 2006 | American Hardcore · as Self |
| 2006 | The Curse of Superman · as Self |
| 2006 | A/k/a Tommy Chong · as Self |
| 2005 | Michael Jackson's Boys · as Self |
| 2004 | Inside the U.S. Secret Service · as Self |
| 2004 | And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Tupac: Resurrection · as Self |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | Air Force One · as Self |
| 2002 | Family Fundamentals · as Self - First Lady (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion · as Self |
| 2002 | Guts and Glory · as Self |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | Grass · as Self |
| 1999 | After Stonewall · as Self |
| 1997 | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's · as Self |
| 1997 | The Second Civil War · as Self - At Statue Of Liberty Re-Dedication |
| 1996 | Bob Hope: Laughing with the Presidents · as Self |
| 1995 | Nixon · as Self - Attending Nixon Funeral |
| 1995 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick · as Self |
| 1995 | Inside the White House · as Self - 1981-1989 |
| 1993 | But... Seriously · as Self |
| 1992 | Elizabeth R · as Self |
| 1990 | Berkeley in the Sixties · as Self |
| 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1989 | Stand-Up Reagan · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | James Stewart's Wonderful Life · as Self |
| 1988 | The Flintstone Kids' Just Say No Special · as Herself |
| 1987 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | |
| 1986 | The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | Liberty Weekend · as Self |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan · as Self |
| 1985 | Laura Coates Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | The Killing of America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1981 | The Royal Wedding · as Self - Us First Lady |
| 1981 | |
| 1980 | Hour Magazine (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | The David Letterman Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Dean's Place · as Self |
| 1975 | Apostrophes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1971 | V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Former First Lady (segment "my Turn") |
| 1967 | Mondo Hollywood · as Self |
| 1967 | The 39th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1965 | The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Ca First Lady |
| 1954 | The 26th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self |