Nancy Davis Reagan was an American film actress and the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as The Next Voice You Hear…, Night into Morning, and Donovan’s Brain. Reagan was the first lady of California when her husband was governor from 1967 to 1975. She died of heart failure in March 2016, aged 94, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California.
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Nancy Davis Reagan was an American film actress and the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as The Next Voice You Hear…, Night into Morning, and Donovan’s Brain. Reagan was the first lady of California when her husband was governor from 1967 to 1975, and she began to work with the Foster Grandparents Program. She was criticized largely due to her decision to replace the White House china, which had been paid for by private donations. She championed recreational drug prevention causes when she founded the \”Just Say No\” drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as First Lady. Reagan remained active within the Reagan Library and in politics, particularly in support of embryonic stem cell research, until her death from congestive heart failure at age 94 on March 6, 2016. Her godmother was silent-film-star Alla Nazimova. She lived her first two years in Flushing, Queens, a borough of New York City, in a two-story house on Roosevelt Avenue between 149th and 150th Streets. Her parents separated soon after her birth and were divorced in 1928. After their separation, her mother traveled the country to pursue acting jobs and Robbins was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, for six years by her aunt, Virginia Luckett, and uncle, Audley Gailbraith, where she attended Sidwell Friends School for kindergarten through second grade.
Nancy devoted most of her time to caring for her husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994, until his death at the age of 93 on June 5, 2004. She first gained a part in Pitts’ Ramshackle Inn in 1945. She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a pre-chun lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 musical, L-shuteye, starring Mary Martin and Tracy Martin. In 1952, she married Ronald Reagan and the couple had two children together. She died of heart failure in March 2016, aged 94, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. She is survived by her daughter, Nancy Davis Reagan, and her son, Ronald Reagan Jr., who is married to former President George H.W. Bush. She also leaves behind a husband, Ronald Ronald Reagan III, and a daughter, Mary Reagan Reagan, a former First Lady of the U.S. The couple had three children together; Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan IV were adopted by Loyal Edward Davis, a prominent conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago in 1938. Nancy and her stepfather got along very well; she later wrote that he was \”a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values\”. He formally adopted her in 1938 and she would always refer to him as her father. In 1940, a young Davis had appeared as a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis volunteer in a memorable short subject film shown in movie theaters.
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