Why Ronald Reagan Gave Up Acting for Politics A Legacy of Leadership

The movie shows Reagan as the Screen Actors Guild president, confronting rival union leader (and communist agitator) Herb Sorrell. The producers didn't plan for the biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan to open so close to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, ... Working in Hollywood, Reagan learned to revere and read public opinion, a skill that served him greatly in politics, a new book argues. 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 was outspoken against the foreign and domestic policies of Ronald Reagan. ... But his concern did not stop with performers. He fought for ... The fact that the studios were divested from the theaters had something to do with it, and there was the rise of agents and stars, and the ... Ronald Reagan led an actors strike decades before his U.S. presidency ... The year was 1959, and talks between the Screen Actors Guild and movie ... 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 ... As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from ... Ronald Reagan was an American actor whose first screen credit was the starring role in the film Love Is on the Air (1937). He later starred in Brother Rat ...