Before he was leader of the free world, Ronald Reagan was the leader of Hollywood in his role as president of the Screen Actors Guild (he served a five-year stint beginning in 1947 and took up the post again in 1959). Born Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., Reagan was a radio sportscaster before landing a contract with Warner Bros. in 1937 and making his film debut later that year in Love Is on the Air.An amiable screen presence if not a towering acting talent, Reagan made more than a dozen B movies over the next two years before landing a role in the Bette Davis weeper Dark Victory (1939). A year later, he played Notre Dame football hero George "the Gipper" Gipp in the 1940 biopic Knute Rockne All American.
Other films of note for the former president include Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), Hellcats of the Navy (1957) and The Killers (1964). Reagan died June 5, 2004.
AddHellcats of the NavyEx-president Ronald Reagan is Casey Abbott, captain of a World War II submarine given the perilous mission of stopping the flow of supplies between China and Japan. He rises to the occasion, but his job is complicated when a diver who's got his eye on Abbott's paramour (played by former First Lady... Read More
AddStorm WarningWhile visiting her newly married sister, Lucy Rice (Doris Day), dress model Marsha Mitchell (Ginger Rogers) witnesses an investigative reporter beaten to death at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. When she detects her brother-in-law is one of the murderous Klan members, she places both her and Lucy's... Read More
AddLaw and OrderAfter lawman Frame Johnson (Ronald Reagan) chases the criminal element out of Tombstone, Arizona, he decides to move to Cottonwood -- with his girlfriend, Jeannie (Dorothy Malone), his brothers, Lute and Jimmy, and their friend, undertaker Denver Cahoon -- to live peacefully as a rancher. Too late,... Read More
AddThis Is the ArmyAmerica's most beloved popular composer, Irving Berlin, wrote this wartime musical tribute to honor (and fund) the patriotic efforts of American soldiers. Berlin himself appears in full doughboy regalia to sing "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," as does singer Kate Smith, who delivers a... Read More
AddBedtime for BonzoPsychology professor Peter Boyd (Ronald Reagan) plays dad to a chimp to prove himself to his future father-in-law in this madcap comedy. Peter's in love with the dean's daughter, but her pop refuses to accept Peter because his father was a convict. In order to prove that wrongful actions are... Read More
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