Daily Archives: March 4, 2012

Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis 60 years ago today (1952)

(Tuesday, March 4, 1952) — Ronald Reagan, 41, and Nancy Davis, 30, were married today in a simple ceremony designed to avoid the press at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

The only people in attendance were actor William Holden, the best man, and his wife, actress Brenda Marshall, the matron of honor.

‘Nosferatu’ opens in Berlin 90 years ago today (1922)

(Saturday, March 4, 1922)Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel, opened today in Berlin.

Directed by F. W. Murnau, the classic German Expressionist horror film stars Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.