Nancy Reagan
Actor
Born July 6, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA
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."
Filmography
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset
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Henry Fonda for President
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Joan Rivers at the BBC
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
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Commitment to Life
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The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
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Zappa
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The Reagans
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First Ladies
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The Way I See It
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
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The Family
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Reversing Roe
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The Road to Mass Incarceration
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Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
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American Made
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Get Me Roger Stone
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The Reagan Show
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HyperNormalisation
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13th
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How to Win the US Presidency
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The Making of Trump
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Narcos
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Kill the Messenger
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The Presidents' Gatekeepers
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The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
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Our Nixon
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The House I Live In
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Vito
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Reagan
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Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
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How to Win the TV Debate
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Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
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All the Presidents' Wives
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La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
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Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
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Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
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Tupac: Resurrection
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Guts and Glory
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Family Fundamentals
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Grass
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Reagan
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Inside the White House
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
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I Don't Even Like Apple Pie...
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The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
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Entertainment Tonight
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The Killing of America
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Diff'rent Strokes
Apostrophes
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Great Performances
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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87th Precinct
Diane King
The Tall Man
Sarah Wiley
Crash Landing
Helen Williams
Wagon Train
Mrs. Baxter
Hellcats of the Navy
Nurse Lt. Helen Blair
A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
Wife
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Amy Lawson
The Dark Wave
Climax!
Carol Peterson
Donovan's Brain
Janice Cory
General Electric Theater
Evelyn Kent
Shadow in the Sky
Betty Hopke (as Nancy Davis)
Talk About a Stranger
Marge Fontaine
It's a Big Country
Miss Coleman
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Nan Gage
Night Into Morning
Mrs. Katherine Mead
The Next Voice You Hear...
Mary Smith
Shadow on the Wall
Dr. Caroline Canford
East Side, West Side
Helen Lee
The Doctor and the Girl
Mariette Corday
Portrait of Jennie
Teenager in Art Gallery