Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan ( born July 6, 1921 in New York City; born Anne Frances Robbins ) is the widow of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, whom she married in 1952.
Biography
She was under the stage name Nancy Davis 1948-1958 actress in Hollywood. Her career, however, was less successful than her husband. They followed in the footsteps of her mother, Edith Luckett (1896-1987), who appeared in the silent film era in a few films. Your godmother was silent film star Alla Nazimova.
Nancy was six years old when her mother married the neurosurgeon Dr. Loyal Davis. This adopted Nancy, and she grew from then on in Chicago.
Your graduation she went on the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a theater major in Davis had occupied.
She quickly found work as a professional actress. She performed on Broadway in the play " Lute Song" and finally came to Hollywood, where she appeared in twelve films. Her first role in the movie Jenny ( Portrait of Jennie ) ( 1948) has not been mentioned in the credits. This did not change until the next movie "The Doctor and the Girl" ( 1949). In one of her last films " Hellcats of the Navy " (1957) she played at her husband's side.
Davis and Reagan met in 1951, when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. The following year they were married in Los Angeles. Their daughter Patricia Ann Davis was born in 1952. In 1958 the son of Ronald Prescott Reagan. Both children later worked intensively for American television.
When Ronald Reagan from 1967 to 1975 was governor of California, his wife worked for numerous charities. She visited veterans, the elderly, but also mentally and physically disabled people. In particular, they sat down over the years and for the fight against drugs and alcohol abuse among young people. In 1985, she held on this subject from a conference at the White House to achieve international attention to the issue.
After 1981, the assassination attempt had failed almost to her husband, Nancy Reagan began regularly consulted a astrologer catch up and tried the diary of the President then align, what days and hours optimally seemed under astrological aspects for the safety and success of Ronald Reagan.
Nancy Reagan always chose very conservative clothing that had a role model for many women in the world. Likewise, conservative was their attitude to family and their attitude to the issue of homosexuality.
After her time as First Lady of the United States, Nancy Reagan and her husband moved back to California. Her book " My Turn " about life in the White House appeared in 1989. Seldom she entered this time to the public. In 2002, she was the ABC correspondent Diane Sawyer an interview. On 5 June 2004 her husband died after a long Alzheimer 's disease.
Honors
- 2000 Golden Congressional Medal of Honor
- 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush Reagan presented the Medal of Freedom ("The Presidential Medal of Freedom" ), the highest civilian award in the United States.