Hellcats of the Navy

Ronald Reagan (as Commander "Casey" Abbott) with wife Nancy Davis (as nurse "Helen"), in the only feature they made together, ashore after his command decision that caused the death of a sailor ("Wes") she had dated after he ended their own earlier relationship, early in Hellcats Of The Navy, 1957.

Columbia Pictures goes direct to Admiral Nimitz, speaking to the camera, who couldn’t know that the actor (Ronald Reagan) he indirectly introduces would one day outrank both himself and Vice Admiral Lockwood, co-author of the book that was the basis of Hellcats Of The Navy 1957.

Future president Reagan here as WWII Commander Abbott, making the call to submerge before his submarine is spotted by a Japanese vessel, leaving a frogman at risk and infuriating his second in command (Arthur Franz), in Hellcats Of The Navy, 1957, co-starring Nancy Davis (Reagan).