To the Gipper. God bless him.
Posted on 08/15/2005 11:58:33 AM PDT by Paul Ross
Night Unto Reagan
The Gipper makes a Hollywood return.
By John Meroney , National Review, August 04, 2005
On February 8, 1950, some of Hollywood's brightest lights gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel for the kind of glamorous, star-studded soiree typically held on Academy Awards night. While it was Oscar season in Hollywood, the event for which Cecil B. DeMille, Harry Cohn, George Burns, Ed Wynn, Jane Wyman and some 600 others turned out had nothing to do with the film industry's annual awards ceremony. Instead, it was a formal tribute to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan? The same Ronald Reagan who supposedly had a B-grade movie career and was a failure as a leading man? Why would he be feted with such fanfare, more than 15 years before he was elected governor of California?
An excerpt...worth checking into. Even some supposed conservatives have fallen for the Leftist spun smears against Reagan's true merits...even as a film star...
When Ronald Reagan was an officer of the Screen Actors Guild he negotiated the first labor agreement that included the use of "residuals" for the on-screen talent. Prior to this, the actors were paid a flat fee for their appearance and the producers of the show would reap any benefits from the box office, television (and later) DVD sales.
With the advent of residuals, the actors would receive a payment each time the film showed... with movies moving toward televsion this became the biggest piece of remuneration for the vast majority of actors in Hollywood.
The marriage between Reagan and Jane Wyman had just ended a couple of years earlier. I guess they parted on good terms. She's still alive at 91.
To the Gipper. God bless him.
"When Ronald Reagan was an officer of the Screen Actors Guild he negotiated the first labor agreement that included the use of "residuals" "
Fascinating - too bad that Hollywhat has a bunch of leftists determining history.
And I am not surprised that given this, that the Kremlin went so far as to put a contract out for John Wayne!
I didn't know that about Ronnie
Really?? he help out contract for residutal for movies and TV so say I buy Bette Davis DVD that money would go to her heir RIGHT
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