Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)

Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936003426
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Published: 2015-02-13T22:00:00+00:00

Reagan gave Jane permission to “date” handsome Van Johnson, with his clean-cut boy-next-door look. Perhaps Van’s gender preference for men reassured everyone that he wouldn’t pose any serious threat to the Reagan marriage.

Jane and Johnson deliberately were seen together in the early part of any given evening. But often, they slipped away and separated before the night was over. Sometimes, Jane didn’t arrive home until two o’clock in the morning. Apparently, Reagan never questioned the lateness of her returns home.

Johnson often disappeared into the arms of Gene Kelly, Jane preferring the arms of Dennis Morgan or John Payne. This arrangement would continue through the war years and beyond.

No one seemed to suspect what was really going on behind the scenes, with the possible exception of Reagan, who had already been alerted to his wife’s dalliances with both Payne and Morgan.

Unlike her own slow rise to fame, Johnson seemed to be “storming through 1942” (Jane’s words) in his movie career. He’d been cast as a cub reporter opposite Faye Emerson in the filming of Murder in the Big House (1942), during which he was asked to dye his eyebrows and hair black. He’d also had a small role in MGM’s Somewhere I’ll Find You, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner.

“Gable and I played poker a lot,” Johnson later said, “although he told me in the beginning, ‘I don’t like fags.’ Not so Lana. She adores us boys. Problem was, the damn director, Wesley Ruggles, terrified me so much I kept blowing my lines.”

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