Ronald Reagan's Odyssey From Tinseltown to the White House

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. As an actor, Reagan wasn't very notable. He was a precursor to the 1950s B-movie actors: genially pleasant, blandly handsome, and capable of playing everything ... In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most ... Though they had acted together onscreen in Hellcats in the Navy (1957), by the mid-1960s, Nancy had retired from acting ... stop and think about ... For Reagan, lacking the gift of transcendence, acting could only provide an extension of reality, not an escape from it. Like the rest of us “non-pros” (to ... He attended Eureka College and worked as a radio sports announcer before going to Hollywood in 1937. In his career as a movie actor, he appeared in more than 50 ... Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it's the perfect movie for ... By the way, you did read that correctly. Jon Voight plays a ... But then again, if the only character flaw you could find in Ronald Reagan ... Reagan was actually the president of the Screen Actors Guild during the events he describes above, and staunchly anti-Communist. He testified in front of the ... He was outspoken against the foreign and domestic policies of Ronald Reagan. ... But his concern did not stop with performers. He fought for ...