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person_profile-Nancy Davis Reagan

Nancy Davis Reagan Died at age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Nancy Davis Reagan

Date of Birth:

Jul 06, 1921

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Mar 06, 2016

Biography of

Nancy Davis 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.

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Nancy Davis Reagan

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Filmography of

Nancy Davis Reagan

Found 53 Movies in total

Joan Rivers at the BBC

Self (archive) ( Actor )

... 2024

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

Zappa

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

The Way I See It

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Reversing Roe

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

American Made

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Get Me Roger Stone

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Reagan Show

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

HyperNormalisation

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

13th

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

How to Win the US Presidency

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

The Making of Trump

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Kill the Messenger

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2014

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

Our Nixon

Self ( Actor )

... 2013

The House I Live In

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2012

Reagan

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2011

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

How to Win the TV Debate

Self (Archive Footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

Herself/archival footage ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2008

... 2007

... 2004

Tupac: Resurrection

Self (archival) ( Actor )

... 2003

Family Fundamentals

Self - First Lady (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Grass

Self (Archive Footage) ( Actor )

... 1999

Reagan

Herself ( Actor )

... 1998

Inside the White House

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1994

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1990

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1988

... 1985

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

The Killing of America

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1981

Crash Landing

Helen Williams ( Actor )

... 1958

Hellcats of the Navy

Nurse Lt. Helen Blair ( Actor )

... 1957

Donovan's Brain

Janice Cory ( Actor )

... 1953

Shadow in the Sky

Betty Hopke (as Nancy Davis) ( Actor )

... 1952

Talk About a Stranger

Marge Fontaine ( Actor )

... 1952

It's a Big Country

Miss Coleman ( Actor )

... 1951

Night Into Morning

Mrs. Katherine Mead ( Actor )

... 1951

The Next Voice You Hear...

Mary Smith ( Actor )

... 1950

Shadow on the Wall

Dr. Caroline Canford ( Actor )

... 1950

East Side, West Side

Helen Lee ( Actor )

... 1949

The Doctor and the Girl

Mariette Corday ( Actor )

... 1949

Portrait of Jennie

Teenager in Art Gallery ( Actor )

... 1948