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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Joan Rivers at the BBC
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:08/09/2024
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/02/2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:11/01/2021
Zappa
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/11/2020
The Way I See It
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/09/2020
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/09/2019
Reversing Roe
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/09/2018
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Character:Self
Release Date:13/06/2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Character:
Release Date:01/03/2018
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:21/08/2017
American Made
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:18/08/2017
Get Me Roger Stone
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/04/2017
The Reagan Show
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:22/04/2017
HyperNormalisation
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/10/2016
13th
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/10/2016
How to Win the US Presidency
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/08/2016
The Making of Trump
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/11/2015
Kill the Messenger
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/10/2014
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/09/2013
Our Nixon
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/01/2013
The House I Live In
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:05/10/2012
Reagan
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/02/2011
Ronald Reagan: An American Journey
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/2011
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:09/11/2010
How to Win the TV Debate
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/04/2010
Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/02/2010
All the Presidents' Wives
Character:Self
Release Date:24/06/2008
La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2008
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Character:Self
Release Date:11/04/2007
Stand-up Reagan
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/09/2004
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:22/06/2004
Tupac: Resurrection
Character:Self (archival)
Release Date:14/11/2003
Family Fundamentals
Character:Self - First Lady (archive footage)
Release Date:26/05/2002
Grass
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/09/1999
Reagan
Character:Self
Release Date:23/02/1998
Inside the White House
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1996
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:18/07/1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:04/06/1990
The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
Character:Herself
Release Date:15/09/1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character:Self
Release Date:13/03/1987
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1984
The Chemical People
Character:
Release Date:02/11/1983
Crash Landing
Character:Helen Williams
Release Date:01/07/1958
Hellcats of the Navy
Character:Nurse Lt. Helen Blair
Release Date:01/05/1957
A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
Character:Wife
Release Date:23/12/1956
The Dark Wave
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1956
Donovan's Brain
Character:Janice Cory
Release Date:30/09/1953
Shadow in the Sky
Character:Betty Hopke (as Nancy Davis)
Release Date:18/07/1952
Talk About a Stranger
Character:Marge Fontaine
Release Date:18/04/1952
It's a Big Country
Character:Miss Coleman
Release Date:20/11/1951
Night Into Morning
Character:Mrs. Katherine Mead
Release Date:08/06/1951
The Next Voice You Hear...
Character:Mary Smith
Release Date:29/06/1950
Shadow on the Wall
Character:Dr. Caroline Canford
Release Date:19/05/1950
East Side, West Side
Character:Helen Lee
Release Date:22/12/1949
The Doctor and the Girl
Character:Mariette Corday
Release Date:29/09/1949
Portrait of Jennie
Character:Teenager in Art Gallery
Release Date:25/12/1948
Television Appearances
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Character:Self (archive footage)
The Reagans
Character:Self (archive footage)
First Ladies
Character:Self (archive footage)
The Family
Character:Self (archive footage)
Narcos
Character:Self (archive footage)
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
Character:Self (archive footage)
The Queen at 80
Character:Self
Entertainment Tonight
Character:Self
Diff'rent Strokes
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Apostrophes
Character:Self
Great Performances
Character:Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
87th Precinct
Character:Diane King
The Tall Man
Character:Sarah Wiley
Wagon Train
Character:Mrs. Baxter
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character:Amy Lawson
Climax!
Character:Carol Peterson
General Electric Theater
Character:Evelyn Kent
General Electric Theater
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General Electric Theater
Character:Betty Anderson
General Electric Theater
Character:Vicky Carlisle
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:Nan Gage
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:Helen
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