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In Memory of President Ronald Reagan

In memory of the passing of our beloved former President, we offer you a glimpse back at his remarkable career.   Ronald Reagan's screen credits included 59 feature films from 1937 through 1964, yet his talents were not limited to the silver screen alone.   His broadcasting career included seven appearances on the Lux Radio Theatre.

This month we present a trio of his most memorable Lux Radio Theatre
broadcasts for your listening enjoyment. 

 

 

Special Feature
Lux Radio Theatre presents Ronald Reagan

Knute Rockne --  Dec 02, 1940

Cast: 

Ronald Reagan; Pat O'Brien; Fay Wray & Donald Crisp

  Reprising his role as "The Gipper" from the 1940 Warner Bros.classic directed by Lloyd Bacon
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne

 

Nobody Lives Forever --   Nov 17, 1947

Cast: 

Ronald Reagan & Jane Wyman

  Based on the 1946 film starring John Garfield, Geraldine Ford & Walter Brennan
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

 

Cloak and Dagger -- May 03, 1948

Cast: 

Ronald Reagan & Lilli Palmer

  Based on the 1946 film starring Gary Cooper & Lilli Palmer
Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach his former colleague, Katerin Lodor, now in Switzerland, and bring her out for debriefing. He reaches her, but a German agent is quickly onto him, and Lodor dies. Jesper must now get into Italy, go underground with the help of Gina, a resistance leader, and convince Polda, a physicist there, to leave with him. Polda won't go until his daughter is rescued from German detention. As Jesper's pal Pinky works on rescuing Polda's daughter and as time for escape runs down, Jesper and Gina fall in love.

 

 

Movie summaries are courtesy of IMDB.com.

For more on Ronald Reagan's extensive motion picture career, please be sure to visit the incomparable Internet Movie Database -- imdb.com

 

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