god bless richard nixon
he was a fan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPj5l4Sd_L8&ab_channel=AmericanFilmInstitute
A reminder that once upon a time, Hollywood had a certain number of Republicans among its star actors and directors.
There had certainly been Democrats always -- Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancasterr...but there had a been a significant number of Republicans -- John Wayne, James Stewart, Robert Montgomery..eventually James Cagney and Cary Grant(more in their later years.) John Ford was a star director of Republican bent. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Alfred Hitchcock said "I am a Democrat about social issues, but a Republican about my money."
But over time, a younger generation came in and -- rather than having to fight anybody -- they just quietly and somewhat respectfully waited for Wayne and Grant and Stewart and Cagney to retire and die.