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Reagan appeared in quite a number of movies between 1937 and 1964, but nothing especially famous. Because he was extremely near-sighted, he could not go overseas and so spent [[World War II]] making training films.
 
In 1940, he played real-life American Football Player George "The Gipper" Gipp in the movie ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'' (about a Notre Dame football coach), which featured[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|didn't feature]] the line, "Win one for the Gipper." "The Gipper" became one of Reagan's nicknames. Another film Reagan (in)famously played in was ''Bedtime for Bonzo'', in which he [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|costarred with a chimpanzee]] in a standard [[Aint No Rule]] story, and eventually became his [[Never Live It Down]] film. (Actually, Reagan always displayed a sense of humor about this movie; he's famously said to have once signed a promo photo of himself and Bonzo with the inscription "I'm the one with the wristwatch.") There's also a common story that he was originally slated to star in ''[[Casablanca]]'', but [[The Other Wiki]] seems to think it's not actually true.
 
His most famous role was probably in the 1942 film ''Kings Row'', which contains the famous line: "Where's the rest of me?" (his character had [[An Arm and a Leg|lost both of his legs]].) ''Where's The Rest Of Me?'' was the title of his 1965 autobiography. He had a memorable [[Playing Against Type]] role as a brutal crime kingpin in his last film, ''The Killers'' (1964).
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