“Didn’t your mom visit fortune tellers?”
Nancy was/is a elitist shallow whack job, but not Michael’s mother. I never understood what RWR saw in her, although she seemed to take very good care of him, and that’s a big deal.
Years ago I heard or read an interview with her. Paraphrasing, but she said she loved him because he had made it possible for her to have a high-society (not her exact words, but similar) lifestyle. She didn’t say it was because he was a patriot, or a wonderful person, or anything like that. I thought it seemed narcissictic and shallow. I could be wrong.
But wasn’t Nancy the one who convince RWR to change his party affiliation to Republican?
You just described a Nancy Reagan that we don’t recognize, it sounds more like you were describing the idiot, Ann Romney.
Unlike the 16 year old Ann, who was converted for her husband by the Governor of her state, Nancy Reagan was an accomplished woman, and a Hollywood success when she married Reagan.
“Her godmother was silent-film-star Alla Nazimova.”
“her mother married Loyal Davis (1896–1982), a prominent, politically conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago.”
“attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.”
“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. Davis appeared in eleven feature films, usually typecast as a “loyal housewife,” “responsible young mother,” or “the steady woman.” Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, and Janet Leigh were among those that she competed with for roles at MGM.”
Nancy was still acting after marrying Reagan and her last film was Hellcats of the Navy.
“After her final film, Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas such as Wagon Train and The Tall Man until 1962, when she retired as an actress. 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.”
“During her Hollywood career, Davis dated many actors, including Clark Gable, Robert Stack, and Peter Lawford; she later called Gable the nicest of the stars she had met. On November 15, 1949, she met Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. Nancy had noticed that her name had appeared on the Hollywood blacklist and sought Reagan’s help to maintain her employment as a guild actress in Hollywood, and for assistance in having her name removed from the list. Reagan informed her that she had been confused with another actress of the same name. The two began dating and their relationship was the subject of many gossip columns; one Hollywood press account described their nightclub-free times together as “the romance of a couple who have no vices”.”