[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')FFICE OF NANCY REAGAN


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 6, 2016


STATEMENT BY JOANNE DRAKE, SPOKESPERSON,
ON THE DEATH OF FORMER FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN


Los Angeles – Nancy Davis Reagan, former First Lady of the United States, died this morning at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.

Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004. Prior to the funeral service, there will be an opportunity for members of the public to pay their respects at the Library. Details will be announced shortly.

In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Reagan requested that contributions be made to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation at www.reaganlibrary.com.
For continuous information on the week’s events, please visit the Reagan Library’s web site at www.reaganlibrary.com.

A biography of Nancy Reagan is attached.

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Contact: Joanne Drake 805-522-2977

[Tanada]

It was bound to happen eventually. She was a little strange with her Hollywood belief in horoscopes to predict the future, but all in all I think she was a pretty classy lady. As FLOTUS she never did or said anything to embarrassing in public, and as for what she said before and after, well that doesn't count nearly as much.

[eugene]

Agree with pstarr. Neither of the Reagan's impressed me. Reagan was a man who sold whatever ideas he was paid to sell. I always saw her as silly. Her "just say no" campaign was simply stupid. But we do idealize our dead. Wanta be god's wonder of a good person, die.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Will Penny: That's always the way, ain't it?
Alex: What's always the way?
Will Penny: Let a man die, right away he's "good, old Claude". How was he *before* he bucked out?

Will Penny (1967)

[Sixstrings]

Some of her movies, her and Ronald:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ancy and Ronald Reagan's Only Film Together 'Hellcats of the Navy
https://youtu.be/zoorcygKkBY?t=3

[Cog]

I'm not surprised at the people of low character on this board who want to disrespect a dead woman. Par for the course.

[Lore]

I didn't respect her much when she was alive, why should being dead be any different?

[Sixstrings]

Some more about her acting career:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREo0Z0m_N7XGTz2F9WaKAtmHf1L1S-lcdABWa6RbnioRmUFpgg[/img]

In 1940, a young Davis had appeared as a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis volunteer in a memorable short subject shown in movie theaters to raise donations for the crusade against polio. ... It was very effective in raising contributions.

...

Following her graduation from college, Davis held jobs in Chicago as a sales clerk in Marshall Field's department store and as a nurse's aide.

With the help of her mother's colleagues in theatre, including Zasu Pitts, Walter Huston, and Spencer Tracy, she pursued a career as a professional actress. ...

She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner. ...

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) in 1949; she later remarked, "Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world." Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyes – and somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.

Author Garry Wills believes that Davis was underrated as an actress overall because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance. ...

After her final film, Crash Landing (1958), Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas such as the Zane Grey Theatre episode "The Long Shadow" (1961), where she played opposite Ronald Reagan, as well as Wagon Train, and The Tall Man, until she retired as an actress in 1962.

During her career, Davis served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild for nearly ten years.

Decades later, Albert Brooks attempted to coax her out of acting retirement by offering her the title role opposite himself in his 1996 film Mother. She declined in order to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan

[efarmer]

RR
"Good to see you Nancy!"
NR
"Great to see you again Ronnie!"
RR
"Hey Nancy, what do you think of all those obstructing assholes who claim to be following
in my footsteps?"
NR
"They seem to mostly be the kids of the guys who tried to keep you out of the White
House because they thought you were a RINO pinko sneaking in on the pure conservative
movement."

RR "I tried to tell those guys back in the 80's that the 50's were pretty much over with,
but they just couldn't stand the thought of it."
"

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eugene', ' ')Her "just say no" campaign was simply stupid...

[charmcitysking]

The real-life personification of Lillian Rearden

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m not surprised at the people of low character on this board who want to disrespect a dead woman. Par for the course.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')he's not my idiot. Aren't you kind of surprised though, The Trump didn't know it was illegal to kill noncombatant children? Is that news around here? Or have we really sunk that low?

"Mommy. Is it okay to stab the kitten?"
"I don't know dear. Hum? I'll just have to ask Oprah at the next call-in. In the meantime have fun , and don't get any blood on your jumper. "