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Off to Hollywood:
Through high school an college, and his years in radio, Ronald Reagan never gave up his secret dream of becoming an actor. Radio eventually led him to Hollywood.
As an announcer for the Chicago Cubs, he talked the team into bringing him along to spring training on Catalina Island, off the Southern California coast. In April 1937, an old acquaintance in Los Angeles introduced him to an agent, who helped arrange a screen test. A few days later, back in Iowa, he had a telegram offering him a contract with Warner Bros. |