Ronnie and Nancy (40 page)

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)