Monday Minute (Season 8) Ep 33 – Ronald and Nancy Reagan's Wedding Anniversary

In the Fall of 1949, while serving as President of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan received a phone call from an actress named Nancy Davis, who asked him for help. She was worried about being confused with another actress of the same name who had a connection to communist front groups. They met for dinner to discuss the problem and ended up staying out half the night. Within a few months, they dated only each other.

To avoid the intrusion of the Hollywood press, Ronald and Nancy Reagan were married in a secret, quiet ceremony in the Little Brown Church in the Valley on March 4, 1952, attended only by the minister, and their best man and matron of honor, Bill and Ardis Holden.

In our Museum galleries we have their wedding announcement, their wedding program, which they signed, Mrs. Reagan’s wedding bouquet, their wedding cake topper, and Mrs. Reagan’s platinum wedding ring.