Authors: Bob Colacello
Ronald Reagan and his brother, Neil,
at a Warner Bros. radio broadcast, 1943.
(The Everett Collection)
Nelle Reagan visiting her son Ronald
on the set of
Stallion Road
, 1947.
(©Underwood & Underwood/Corbis)
A publicity photo of Ronald Reagan
shortly after his arrival
in Hollywood in 1937.
(Imageworks/Time Life
Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Dr. Loyal Davis and Edith Luckett
on the SS
New York
in 1927,
two years before their marriage.
(Collection of Richard Davis)
Nancy with her stepbrother,
Richard Davis, circa 1930.
(Reagan Family Photo Collection)
Nancy with her father, Kenneth Robbins,
who visited her in Chicago in 1929.
(Camera Press/Retna)
Nancy Davis
onstage with
ZaSu Pitts,
a friend of her
mother’s and
her theatrical
mentor,
circa 1946.
(Reagan Family
Photo
Collection)
Colleen Moore
Hargrave, the
silent screen star
turned Chicago
socialite, with her
famous Doll
House.
(A.P.
Wide World
Photos)
Reagan with gossip columnist
Louella Parsons, who also hailed
from Dixon, Illinois.
(Photofest)
Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan
on their wedding day, January 26, 1940.
(Culver Pictures)
Wyman with her Academy Award
for
Johnny Belinda
, March 1948.
(A.P. Wide World Photos)