[Rockingham]

Ronald Reagan had considerable affection from Hollywood’s actors because he was a successful Screen Actor’s Guild President who had won the concession of residual rights from Hollywood’s notoriously tight-fisted producers. I recall a gossip reporter describing an unnamed faded screen and TV idol who was a queer and a leftist Democrat who explained his unexpected great regard for Reagan by showing off a fat residual check.

[cowboyusa]

Hollywood had not been infected by the left yet.

[SmokingJoe]

Its funny how Reagan was not only a Democrat for a considerable part of his adult life, he was a union leader as well. Who experts a union leader to turn Republican and run as a conservative? And led a hard fought union strike that he won.
Then he turns Republican and wins two terms as governor of left wing California, before winning two terms as president of the United States, including winning an astonishing 49 states in his second run for president.