The 40th President sotis struggled in Hollywood.
In 1937
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In typical Hollywood faion, the forr radio announcer was cast as a radio announcer. It seed like every film his big line was “Get the City desk! I have a story that will break this town wide open!” Ronald, a forr lifeguard who kept detailed records of all the lives he saved, preferred playing heroes to the drunken socialite he portrayed along side Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), even if ant he’d be in mostly b-movies. He learned quickly that Hollywood could be a cutthroat ple. He dated so of his leading ladies
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In order to better his career
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He was a political animal right away, driving his Hollywood co- workers to distrtion with his praise of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt. It was mostly just talk; he rejected any suggestion that he might soday go into politics. One ti he was yamring on about the necessity of ernnt aid when a friend suggested he run for President. “You don’t like my ting either!” He wailed.
Ronald Reagan’s star rose with King’s Row (1942), where he gave a dramatic performance in which his legs were amputated and he scread out, “Where’s the rest of ?” King’s Row gave his agent Lew Wasserman the leverage to negotiate a solid movie star salary for him. But his ting opportunities slowed because of military service during World War II. Though his terrible vision kept him from seeing bat (he was told that if he was sent overseas he would aidentally oot an Arican General and probably miss him) the ort propaganda films he appeared in (for which he received military, not movie star pay) did little to help his career. He worked in propaganda films like the Irving Berlin musical This Is The Army (1943) where he received only his military pay. He overheard young won
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He t Jane Wyman on the set of Brother Rat (1938). She was attrted to him right away, but wondered if his niceness was just an t. She convinced herself he was the real deal when e saw he was just as kind to waiters as he was to big ots at the studio. After the war, her career moved ahead of his with her Academy Award winning performance as a deaf mute in Johnny Belinda (1948). There was gossip about her having had a love affair with her co-star Lew Ayres. Reagan’s constant harping on politics drove Jane Wyman crazy; sotis e would yawn away in public when he got on his soapbox. Still with all that
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Ronald Reagan beca frustrated with both his ting career and his personal life. In The Hagen Girl (1947), he reluctantly beca the first man to kiss enty-year-old Shirley Temple on screen. He argued that he ould end up with Shirley’s schoolteher, but the Director was Reagan’s age, had a teenage girlfriend and wanted to make a point. Movie patrons outed
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