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2011-01-05

Posted by Fred 2011-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Jane Wyman aka Belinda McDonald in "Johnny Belinda" aka Ory Baxter in "The Yearling" aka Laura Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" (Died in 2007 at age 90)

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-01-05 03:02|| 2011-01-05 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 difficult to see why RR left her for Nancy

Posted by lord garth 2011-01-05 08:16|| 2011-01-05 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 If you get a chance, you should see Ms Helm in "Metropolis"; a 1927 B&W film. Predates "1984" and was just re-mastered in 2010. Even though it is silent, it is very powerful and captures very forcefully what happens when rulers think they are god and when the masses are led by charismatic and unthinking leaders.

Posted by sam3rd 2011-01-05 09:58|| 2011-01-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Art imitates life in 1927 and again more recently.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-01-05 10:19|| 2011-01-05 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Reagan was third of Wyman's four marriages

In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They were engaged at the Chicago Theatre, and married on January 24, 1940, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California. She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (19412001), the adopted son Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely on June 26, 1947 and died the next day). She filed for divorce in 1948; the divorce was finalized in 1949. Since Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president to have been divorced, Wyman was the only ex-wife of an American President.

Though she remained silent during Reagan's political career, she told a newspaper interviewer in 1968 that this was not because she was:
bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

A few days after Reagan died on June 5, 2004, Wyman broke her silence:
America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-01-05 12:15|| 2011-01-05 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 "Captain! Requesting permission to take the Helm."

Posted by Mike 2011-01-05 13:38|| 2011-01-05 13:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Careful there, Mike. Things like that are what gets Navy Captains in trouble.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-01-05 14:28|| 2011-01-05 14:28|| Front Page Top

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