net. Cast & Crew. Share Watch It. Rated: Runtime: 1 hr. Overview of The Hellcats of the Navy, 1957, directed by Nathan Juran, with Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz, at Turner Classic Movies § 5013) to "conduct all the affairs of the Department of the Navy", i.e. Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Responsibilities. History: After early US Navy experience in the Pacific in the early months of WWII, and after consultation with Allied air forces in the European theater, Grumman began to develop a successor to their Wildcat fighter, to be called the Hellcat. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. 21 min. Casey Abbott. Ronald Reagan Cmdr. Action 1957 1 hr 21 min. With a strong supporting cast including Academy Award-winner Patricia Neal ("Hud"), Ward Bond ("The Maltese Falcon"), Martin Milner (TV's "Adam 12"), and Philip Carey (TV's "One Life to Live") in the role that launched his film career. Read the Hellcats of the Navy plot and find out who is in the cast and crew at Movies.com. Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. WL. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. Hellcat N1078Z makes a photo pass at Oxnard, California in August, 2004. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of Hellcats Of The Navy with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com The Secretary of the Navy is responsible for, and has statutory authority (10 U.S.C. Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Some Sangamon-class CVEs deployments during World War II were with both a fighter squadron equipped with F6F Hellcats as well as a VT squadron assigned TBMs or a VC squadron operating SBDs and TBMs. On Friday March 20, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said President Trump was lying when he said the U.S. Navy hospital ships would arrive in Los Angeles and New York City in the near future. Hellcats of the Navy is a 1957 black-and-white World War II submarine film drama from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Nathan Juran.The film stars Ronald Reagan and his wife, billed under her screen name Nancy Davis, and Arthur Franz.This was the only feature film in which the Reagans acted together, either before or after their 1952 marriage. Arthur Franz Lt. Cmdr. News + Features; In Theaters; At Home; Reviews; Trailers "I tried being reasonable, I didn‘t like it." Nathan Juran's Hellcats Of The Navy has taken its share of knocks over the decades, mostly because of the presence of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (aka Nancy Reagan) in the cast as the two romantic leads. The Sangamons (only four were built) were a bit longer and had a bigger hangar deck than the earlier U.S. Navy CVEs. The story centers around an initially unstable relationship between a submarine commander, a nurse, another officer showing interest in her and an executive officer who questions the motives of the commander, both personally and militarily.