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.
The Dark Wave
Family Fundamentals
(Self - First Lady (archive footage))
Shadow on the Wall
(Dr. Caroline Canford)
Donovan's Brain
(Janice Cory)
Zappa
(Self (archive footage))
The Next Voice You Hear...
(Mary Smith)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
(Self (archive footage))
Hellcats of the Navy
(Nurse Lt. Helen Blair)
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
(Self (archive footage))
It's a Big Country
(Miss Coleman)
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
(Self)
Talk About a Stranger
(Marge Fontaine)
Crash Landing
(Helen Williams)
East Side, West Side
(Helen Lee)
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
((archive footage))
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
(Self (archive footage))
Shadow in the Sky
(Betty Hopke (as Nancy Davis))
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Bureaucrats
(Self (Archival Footage))
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Beneficiaries
(Self (Archival Footage))
Tyranny of the Status Quo: Politicians
(Self (Archival Footage))
Night Into Morning
(Mrs. Katherine Mead)
How to Win the TV Debate
(Self (archive footage))
The Road to Mass Incarceration
(Self)
Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
(Self)
La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
(Self (archive footage))
The Killing of America
(Self (archive footage))
HyperNormalisation
(Self (archive footage))
The Making of Trump
(Self (archive footage))
Portrait of Jennie
(Teenager in Art Gallery)
The Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
(Self)
The Second Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
(Self)
The State Funeral of Richard Nixon
(Self)
The State Funeral of Ronald Reagan
(Self)
The Reagan Show
(Self (archive footage))
All the Presidents' Wives
(Self)
Reagan
(Self)
Inside the White House
(Self (archive footage))
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
(Self (archive footage))
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
((archive footage))
Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
(Herself/archival footage)
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
(Herself (archive footage))
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
(Self)
The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
(Herself)
Kill the Messenger
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
The Doctor and the Girl
(Mariette Corday)
Reversing Roe
(Self (archive footage))
Get Me Roger Stone
(Self (archive footage))
How to Win the US Presidency
(Self (archive footage))
Our Nixon
(Self)
Reagan
(Self (archive footage))
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
(Self (archive footage))
The Way I See It
(Self (archive footage))
The House I Live In
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Stand-up Reagan
(Self (archive footage))
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
(Self (archive footage))
The Chemical People
13th
(Self (archive footage))
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
(Self (archive footage))
Joan Rivers at the BBC
(Self (archive footage))
A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
(Wife)
Diff'rent Strokes
General Electric Theater
(Evelyn Kent)
The Tall Man
(Sarah Wiley)
87th Precinct
(Diane King)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(Nan Gage)
Climax!
(Carol Peterson)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Amy Lawson)
The Queen at 80
(Self)
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
(Self (archive footage))
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
(Betty Anderson)
General Electric Theater
(Vicky Carlisle)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(Helen)
Narcos
(Self (archive footage))
Entertainment Tonight
(Self)
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
(Self (archive footage))
Apostrophes
(Self)
The Family
(Self (archive footage))
Wagon Train
(Mrs. Baxter)
First Ladies
(Self (archive footage))
Great Performances
(Self)
The Reagans
(Self (archive footage))
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)