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President Reagan Writes About His Movie Career

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President Reagan Writes About His Movie Career
<Our item number 140680><B>Reagan, Ronald.</B> &#40;1911-2004&#41; Typed letter signed as President, on &#34;The White House&#34; letterhead, 1p, 9 x 6¾ in., Washington, 17 February 1983. To Michael Palmer in Port Jefferson, New York. In full: &#34;Helene von Damm delivered your letter. I have no objection to your doing what you proposed. Like anyone else who ever made pictures I made a few I&#39;d rather not have shown again, but &#34;Santa Fe Trail&#34; isn&#39;t one of them. Incidentally, I was put in that picture as second lead to Errol Flynn the day after the Knute Rockne picture was sneak previewed. I don&#39;t know what access to movie prints you have, but &#34;Kings Row&#34; was probably the finest picture I ever made. Others that cause me no shame are &#34;Voice of the Turtle&#34; and &#34;The Winning Team&#34; &#40;the life story of Grover Cleveland Alexander&#41;--well, that&#39;s enough. Good luck to you…&#34; Very fine.<BR><BR>Michael Palmer was a lecturer on motion pictures who had asked Reagan&#39;s permission to give a lecture on Reagan&#39;s motion picture career. Palmer intended to show the 1940 movie &#34;Santa Fe Trail,&#34; in which Reagan played George Armstrong Custer and Errol Flynn played J.E.B. Stuart. Reagan gives his authorization to the lecture here. This letter is quoted in the book, <I>Reagan: A Life In Letters</I> &#40;New York: Free Press, 2003&#41;. Reagan used a line from the 1942 movie &#34;King&#39;s Row&#34; as the title of his autobiography; when his character awakens from anesthesia and discovers that both of his legs have been amputated, he asks, &#34;Where is the rest of me?&#34;. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;2,500 - 3,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 140680<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/49jpegs/140680.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>