LOVE TRIANGLE : RONALD REAGAN, JANE WYMAN, AND NANCY DAVIS PB

Most of the world remembers Ronald Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan as geriatric figures in the White House in the 1980s. And it remembers Jane Wyman as the fierce empress, Angela Channing, in the decades hit TV series, Falcon Crest. But long before that, two young wannabee stars, Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, had arrived as untested hopefuls in Hollywood. Each of them separately stormed Warner Brothers, looking for movie stardom and loveand finding both beyond their wildest dreams. They were followed, in time, by Nancy Davis, who began her career posing for cheesecake in a failed attempt by the studio to turn her into a sex symbol. In their memoirs, Ronald and Nancy (Jane didnt write one) paid scant attention to their wild and wonderful years in Hollywood. To provide that missing link in their lives, Blood Moons Love Triangle explores in depth the trios passions, fury, betrayal, loves won and lost, and the conflicts and rivalries they generated. A liberal New Deal Democrat, Reagan quickly became a handsome leading man in B pictures and a babe magnet, as studio mogul Jack Warner defined him, a swordsman like our resident Don Juan, Errol Flynn. Reagan himself admitted he developed Leading Lady-itis even for stars he didnt appear with. He launched a bevy of affairs with such glamorous icons as Lana Turner, Betty Grable and Susan Hayward, even a too young Elizabeth Taylor. He eventually married Jane, but he was not faithful to her, enjoying back alley affairs with the likes of The Oomph Girl, Ann Sheridan. Jane, too, had her affairs on the side, notably with Lew Ayres (Ginger Rogers ex) while filming her Oscar-winning Johnny Belinda. After dumping Reagan, Jane launched a series of affairs herself, battling Joan Crawford (for Hollywoods most studly and newsworthy attorney, Greg Bautzer), and Marilyn Monroe (for bandleader Fred Karger, divorcing him, marrying him again, and finally divorcing him for good.) Reagans oldest son, Michael (adopted), late