Bette Davis, Myrna Loy and Lucille Ball on Ronald Reagan

[WI_DEM]

Bette Davis on Ronald Reagan:

"Everybody called him 'Little Ronnie Reagan the boy scout' at the studio and we didn't think he was terribly bright. For instance, in DARK VICTORY he is playing a gay man and he never really understood that. I will grant that he did give one good performance in his career--in KING'S ROW. He did love to talk, though. He would go on and on and would eventually bore everyone. Jane Wyman divorced him because he was a bore."



Myrna Loy on Ronald Reagan:

"I never worked with Ronald Reagan. I'm not happy that he's president, but I was willing to give him a chance. But he's destroying everything now I've lived my life for."



Lucille Ball on Ronald Reagan

“…One night we went to Bill Holden’s for dinner, and it was fun at first, but we couldn’t eat until two of the other guests arrived, and they were almost an hour late. The tardy two were Ron and Nancy Reagan. Desi had time for a few extra cocktails, and was sailing by the time the Reagans arrived. They were all out of breath and so excited and said they couldn’t help being late because of what happened. Are you ready? They saw a UFO and stopped to watch it. After he was elected president, I kept wondering if he’d have still won if he told everybody he’d seen a flying saucer.” -From the book, Lucy in the Afternoon

[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[cynatnite]

2. Bette Davis' was the best...

Of course, I adored her. She was a delightful and brilliant woman.

[progressoid]

28. "he is playing a gay man and he never really understood that"

[Bolo Boffin]

36. And that picture!

It looks like she's looking out at us all, apologizing for being onscreen with him: "I tried, darlings, I tried."

[AlbertCat]

39. "he is playing a gay man and he never really understood that"

Ol' "from my cold dead hand" Charlton had the same prob.

[lastlib]

43. "Chuckie Cheese"!!!

[rocktivity]

3. Only in his dreams.

rocktivity

[WI_DEM]

4. LOL!!!!

[kayakjohnny]

23. !

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Three very remarkable ladies.

Man, the stories they could tell. I think there was a lot of animosity in Hollywood towards him because he started out left and then actively participated in the Red hate and witch hunts.

[wial]

21. It is odd how three of the worst characters in recent American history...

... Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Ayn Rand, all rose to become right wing stars via the HUAC hearings. What an incredibly soiled, ugly legacy the republicans represent.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

42. Bobby Kennedy was a part of that as well.

Just sayin'...

[WI_DEM]

48. He was on Joe McCarthy's team for a while.

[sulphurdunn]

24. Yep, and it said of him

that his career was in decline and jobs were getting harder to find, but that after he sold out he never again bought his own lunch.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Myrna Loy was my fav.

[klook]

32. So cool as Nora Charles in the Thin Man movies with William Powell...

Funny, quick, whip-smart, insouciant, easy on the eyes... and "a devout Democrat and feminist." My, my -- women like that don't come along every day!

[Baitball Blogger]

33. I know!

She had an understated intelligence, which was both feminine and feminist.

I don't know how she did it. Outsmarting men, while at the same time being alluring. Dang!

[WI_DEM]

7. just for the heck of it, James Garner on Reagan

Oh, Ronnie, Ronnie, isn’t he wonderful? Listen, I was vice-president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president, and we used to tell him what to say. He can talk around a subject better than anyone in the world. He’s never had an original thought that I know of, and we go back a hell of a lot of years. Do you realize I could have been your president?

[aquart]

9. Damn you, James. Why didn't you run?

[Auggie]

22. "We (told) him what to say ... he's never had an original thought that I know of"

the perfect buffoon for Milton Friedman

[Hermes Daughter]

31. Is it true

he was a liberal and when confronted by his union pals about running for gov as a Republican he replied, "It's the best role I've been offered in years." I heard that from Harry Tugend's son.

[Bolo Boffin]

37. That sounds a little too clever for Reagan. n/t

[Kennah]

35. Rat Bastard! Why the hell didn't YOU run!?

[longship]

47. Ah! A real Maverick presidency!

[NYC Liberal]

8. Didn't Lucy claim to have picked up radio signals from Japanese spies from her tooth filling?

No slight against her; the UFO thing just made me think of that.

[WI_DEM]

10. yes, and apparently that was documented!

[NYC Liberal]

12. I just went and read up a little on it.

I remember watching an interview with her where she talked about it. Mythbusters did an episode on it and debunked it, BUT they supposedly did not test the type of filling she had. Snopes says "undetermined"

Apparently a radio transmitter WAS found nearby where she claimed to have picked up the signal!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Supposedly, Reagan virtually raped a Hollywood actress

Kitty Kelly's biography on Nancy Reagan recounted the story of Reagan stalking actress Selene Walters, showing up at her door unannounced, and forcing her to the couch where he had sex with her. And if Kitty Kelly is unreliable in your opinion, Selene Walters told the same story to People Magazine after Kelly's book came out.

"I opened the door," Walters told the magazine. "Then it was the battle of the couch. I was fighting him. I didn't want him to make love to me. He's a very big man, and he just had his way. Date rape? No, God, no, that's [Kelley's] phrase. I didn't have a chance to have a date with him."

Supposedly, Walters kept quiet about it because Reagan was then the President of the Screen Actors Guild.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

13. I think all of them are great, but I do have to

say Bette Davis's quote was the best of all of them, with James Garner's second.

[LeftinOH]

14. I just wonder what this fine actor had to say about Reagan:

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or this fine lady:

[WI_DEM]

15. he worked with Angie Dickinson in his last film and slapped her around in it

he played kind of a mob king pin or something.

[Bigmack]

17. I heard that Raygun liked the idea of slapping Angie.. she was sleeping with JFK. nt

[LeftinOH]

18. Those images from 'The Killers' (1964); his last film.

He plays a brutal crime kingpin. It's actually pretty good. Apparently, JFKs assassination took place when it was in production.

[Initech]

16. They saw a UFO?? That was their excuse?

[pinboy3niner]

19. They probably were hitting the Vitameatavegamin

[Dont call me Shirley]

20. Rock on Ladies, especially Lucy, my fave.

[pinboy3niner]

29. If you Love Lucy, see #19

A classic blast from the past!

[Politicalboi]

25. Ronnie's a

Moon Beamer? Who knew.

[truebrit71]

26. He was a crappy actor, and an even worse President...

...and the ladies are 100% right....

[mulsh]

27. "He was a B actor, he'll be a D governor"

was a bumper sticker some of our Republican neighbors sported during ronnie's first run for governor.

[southernyankeebelle]

30. God bless my father-in-law (in was in his early 70s) he saw right through Ronnie boy.

He said he was acting as a president. He new nothing.

[leveymg]

34. I love smart women

almost as much as I detest not terribly bright Presidents. Too bad none of the former have ended up running the country, while the latter should have gone on to star in reverse mortgage commercials or become used car managers in Pasadena.

[Nostradammit]

38. Myrna Loy makes me all tingly in my naughty bits.

Which may be crude, but there it is. Her obvious intelligence was every bit as attractive as her physical beauty. She certainly knew an idiot when she saw one.

[AlbertCat]

40. Myrna Loy makes me all tingly in my naughty bits.

Well, she does have an entire studio crew making her look her best.... in those days DICTATING how she looked on & off the screen.

The hair. makeup and wardrobe dept's just don't get enough credit.


Of course.... they DO INDEED have good material to start with!

[LongTomH]

45. She was still attractive as an 'older woman' in Midnight Lace (1960)

[AlbertCat]

41. Reagan: the 1st cardboard cutout president

and the start of the USA'a great decline.

(Imagine if Carter had won. Imagine if we had been doing what Carter wanted (ecology-wise) for the past 30 years.)


Bush Jr. was the "improved" model. A face.... while unelected people ran everything.

[bayareaboy]

44. Yes but what did Bonzo ...

have to say, about his co-star.

[LongTomH]

46. Ronnie Raygun had aliens on the brain!

He claimed to have seen UFO's at least twice. Later, in his career as president, he was fond of saying that an alien threat would "unite mankind!" He supposedly made references to an alien threat, publicly, five times. His handlers reportedly had to edit his speeches to keep him from bringing it up more often.

Google on "Reagan alien speech."