46 Facts About Nancy Davis

Nancy Davis Reagan was an American film actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Nancy Davis had two children from his previous marriage to Jane Wyman and he and Nancy had two children together.

Nancy Davis 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.

Nancy Davis's championed causes opposed to recreational drug use when she founded the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as First Lady.

Nancy Davis's generally had a strong influence on her husband and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.

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Nancy Davis's was the only child of Kenneth Seymour Robbins, a farmer turned car salesman who had been born into a once-prosperous family, and his actress wife, Edith Prescott Luckett .

Nancy Davis and her stepfather got along very well; she later wrote that he was "a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values".

Nancy Davis formally adopted her in 1938, and she would always refer to him as her father.

Nancy Davis's attended the Girls' Latin School of Chicago, from 1929, until she graduated in 1939, and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama, graduating in 1943.

In 1940, a young Nancy Davis had appeared as a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis volunteer in a memorable short subject film shown in movie theaters to raise donations for the crusade against polio.

Nancy Davis's first gained a part in Pitts' 1945 road tour of Ramshackle Inn, moving to New York City.

Nancy Davis's 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-fame Yul Brynner.

Author Garry Wills has said that Nancy Davis was generally underrated as an actress because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance.

Nancy Davis's declined in order to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the part.

Nancy Davis's had noticed that her name had appeared on the Hollywood blacklist.

Nancy Davis 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.

Nancy Davis's frequently quarreled with her children and her stepchildren.

Michael responded that Nancy Davis was trying to cover up for the fact she had not met his daughter, Ashley, who had been born nearly a year earlier.

Nancy Davis was thought to be closest to her stepdaughter Maureen during the White House years, but each of the Reagan children experienced periods of estrangement from their parents.

Nancy Davis Reagan was First Lady of California during her husband's two terms as governor.

Nancy Davis's disliked living in the state capital of Sacramento, which lacked the excitement, social life, and mild climate to which she was accustomed in Los Angeles.

Nancy Davis's first attracted controversy early in 1967; after four months' residence in the California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento, she moved her family into a wealthy suburb because fire officials had labelled the mansion as a "firetrap".

Nancy Davis's became involved with the Foster Grandparents Program, helping to popularize it in the United States and Australia.

Nancy Davis's later expanded her work with the organization after arriving in Washington, and wrote about her experiences in her 1982 book To Love a Child.

Nancy Davis's feared for her husband's health and his career as a whole, though she felt that he was the right man for the job and eventually approved.

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Nancy Davis took on a traditional role in the campaign, holding coffees, luncheons, and talks.

Nancy Davis's oversaw personnel, monitored her husband's schedule, and occasionally provided press conferences.

Nancy Davis was upset by the warmonger image that the Ford campaign had drawn of her husband.

Nancy Davis succeeded in winning the nomination and defeated incumbent rival Jimmy Carter in a landslide.

Nancy Davis's organized a meeting among feuding campaign managers John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, which resulted in Deaver leaving the campaign and Sears being given full control.

Nancy Davis's favored the color red, calling it "a picker-upper", and wore it accordingly.

Nancy Davis's employed two private hairdressers, who would style her hair on a regular basis in the White House.

Approximately a year into her husband's first term, Nancy Davis explored the idea of ordering new state china service for the White House.

Nancy Davis was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner, with the goal to impress both the Soviet leader and especially his wife Raisa Gorbacheva.

Nancy Davis's appeared on television talk shows, recorded public service announcements, and wrote guest articles.

Nancy Davis's appeared in an episode of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes to underscore support for the "Just Say No" campaign, and in a rock music video, "Stop the Madness" .

Nancy Davis was alerted and arrived at George Washington University Hospital, where the President was hospitalized.

Nancy Davis's thought he should resign, and expressed this to her husband, although he did not share her view.

Nancy Davis's became so angry with Regan that he hung up on her during a 1987 telephone conversation.

Ten days after the operation, her 99-year-old mother, Edith Luckett Nancy Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Reagan to dub the period "a terrible month".

Nancy Davis's continued to travel around the United States, speaking out against drug and alcohol abuse.

Nancy Davis's kept a strong composure, traveling from her home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then to Washington, D C, where her husband's body lay in state for 34 hours prior to a national funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral.

Nancy Davis's returned to the library in Simi Valley for a sunset memorial service and interment, where, overcome with emotion, she lost her composure and cried in public for the first time during the week.

Nancy Davis's paid very close attention to the details, something she had always done in her husband's life.

Nancy Davis's traveled to Washington, D C in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol rotunda.

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Nancy Davis's was on hand as President Obama signed the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act, and lunched privately with Michelle Obama.