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Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan watch a film in the White House Family Theater in 1986.. The White House Family Theater is located in the East Wing of the White House. The first film screened in the White House was The Birth of a Nation in 1915; however, early film viewings occurred in the main building as the facility lacked a dedicated theater.
Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, contends that Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy pressured GE to cancel The General Electric Theater or at least to fire Reagan as the host if the program were to continue. The series was not dropped because of low ratings but political intervention, the younger ...
Publicity photograph of Reagan as host of General Electric Theater, 1950s. 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 (1938). By the end of 1939, he had already appeared in 19 films.
The first full-length film about President Ronald Reagan commanded $7.4 million at the North American box office over the three-day weekend, with an estimated cumulative total of $9.2 million ...
Throughout his eight years as president, Ronald Reagan proved to be what historians describe as a “transformational president," restoring hope and patriotism to a responsive people.
Many New York City theaters didn't show the film "Reagan" -- about Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States and conservative icon who won re-election in a 1984 landslide carrying 49 ...
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement.
Quaid, 70, stars as The Gipper in "Reagan" (in theaters Friday), a biopic that spans Reagan's entire life and focuses on two of the actor-turned-politician's defining accomplishments: his enduring ...