“To survive in Hollywood, all you need is an occasional miracle.” An amateur philosopher named Ronald Reagan once directed those words to me, referring to the unexpected labor crisis of 1960.
Hollywood’s actors had shocked their industry by voting to strike and now looked to their leader, Reagan, then president of SAG, to advance a solution.
Reagan was far from a resolute figure at the time. He had won his following as a crusading liberal Democrat but had now decided he was a Republican.
A true believer, Reagan nonetheless forged ahead, soon finding his instant miracle and taking bows for putting the industry back to work (more on that below).
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