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| | Actor, Governor, President, Icon (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | Reagan's mother, Nelle, dominated the household, took her children to concerts and plays and was the major influence in her younger son's life. |
 | | Reagan also became an accomplished doodler, dreamed of becoming a cartoonist and was the lightest tackle on his undermanned high school football team, which in his senior year in 1927 lost seven of nine games. |
 | | Reagan made his film debut in June 1937 as a crusading radio announcer in a minor crime movie, "Love Is On the Air." During the next two decades, he made 52 films, concluding with "Hellcats of the Navy" in 1957, in which the leading lady was his second wife, Nancy Davis. |
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