Editing Ronald Reagan (section)

===Screen Actors Guild presidency===
When [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]] resigned as president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] (SAG) on March 10, 1947, Reagan was elected to that position in a special election.{{sfn|Cannon|2003|p=86}} Reagan's first tenure saw various labor–management disputes,{{sfn|Vaughn|1994|p=133}} the [[Hollywood blacklist]],{{sfn|Vaughn|1994|p=146}} and the [[Taft–Hartley Act]]'s implementation.{{sfn|Vaughn|1994|p=154}} Reagan aligned the union with the studios against the Conference of Studio Unions in the aftermath of the [[Hollywood Black Friday]] strike. In ''The Invisible Bridge,'' [[Rick Perlstein]] wrote that Reagan's actions lent legitimacy to the studio's efforts to crush the more radical union by giving liberals in SAG who did not want to strike "a story that turned them into moral innocents instead of scabs".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |url=https://archive.org/details/invisiblebridgef0000perl |title=The invisible bridge : the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan |date=2014 |publisher=New York : Simon & Schuster |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-4767-8241-6 |pages=365}}</ref> On April 10, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) interviewed Reagan and he provided the names of actors whom he believed to be [[communist sympathizers]].{{sfn|Pemberton|1998|p=32}} During a [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] hearing, Reagan testified that some guild members were associated with the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]{{sfn|Cannon|2003|p=97}} and that he was well-informed about a "jurisdictional strike".{{sfn|Cannon|2003|p=98}} When asked if he was aware of communist efforts within the [[Screen Writers Guild]], he called information about the efforts "hearsay".{{sfn|Brands|2015|p=89}} Reagan resigned as SAG president November 10, 1952, but remained on the board.{{sfn|Eliot|2008|p=266}}

The SAG fought with film producers for the right to receive [[Residual (entertainment industry)|residual payments]],{{sfn|Pemberton|1998|p=35}} and on November 16, 1959, the board elected Reagan SAG president for the second time.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 17, 1959 |title=Reagan Heads Actors Guild |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/celebrity-clipping-nov-17-1959-4623386/ |newspaper=[[The Arizona Republic]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |page=47 |access-date=August 15, 2024}}</ref> Reagan managed to secure payments for actors whose theatrical films had been released between 1948 and 1959 and subsequently televised. The producers were initially required to pay the actors fees, but they ultimately settled instead for providing pensions and paying residuals for films made after 1959. Reagan resigned from the SAG presidency on June 7, 1960, and also left the board.{{sfn|Cannon|2003|pp=111–112}}