On TCM Saturday: Ronald Reagan in "Kings Row" and "This Is The Army"

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King's Row

Saturday February 2, 2013 at 08:15 AM (ET)

Starring Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, and Robert Cummings

Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.

Drama/1942

Kings Row, TCM


This Is The Army

Saturday February 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM (ET)

Starring Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Joan Leslie

A song-and-dance man's son stages a big show starring World War II soldiers.

Comedy/Musical 1943

This Is The Army, TCM

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I have to admit that some of the dialogue in Hellcats of the Navy is staggeringly surreal:

Actual dialogue between Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (nee Davis).

(standing in front of a stack of naval mines)

Nancy: What are you going to do after the war?

Ronald: I told you a hundred times.

Nancy: I want to hear it once more.

Ronald: I’m going into the surplus business.
I’m gonna buy up all the old mines
and sell them to the man in the moon.

Nancy: But there’s no water on the moon!

Ronald: How do you know so much about the moon?

Nancy: I know a lot about it. I spend all my
time looking at it when you’re away.
That’s how it still is with me.

Ronald: It’s time for me to go now.

[Sherman Logan]

King’s Row is actually a pretty appalling movie.

Doctor who cuts off healthy limbs on purpose to punish those he things are doing wrong.

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Trivia Question: Which actor in "This Is The Army" had a son who went on to star in the TV show "Gilligan's Island." This one shouldn't be too hard. (The son and father have the same name, though one is Jr.) Good luck. And enjoy the morning on TCM. (And don't forget, next week, Feb. 6, is President Reagan's birthday.)

[Sherman Logan]

I presume that would be the Skipper.