CABRERA: She was Ronald Reagan's strongest supporter, his sharpest negotiator, and his lifelong protector. This Sunday, the CNN original series, "FIRST LADIES," examines the life of Nancy Reagan. Here's a preview.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan met in Hollywood in 1949. Nancy was an ambitious young actress.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nancy arrived in Hollywood during the time of the Red Scare. There was a lot of concern that Communists were infiltrating Hollywood.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She sees the name Nancy Davis on a list of supposed communist sympathizers. I mean, this is a career killer.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, she went to her director, Mervyn LeRoy. And he said, I'm going to have my good friend, Ronnie Reagan, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, look into this for you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Reagan says, no, it's another Nancy Davis. Tell her not to worry. We'll stand behind her. But Nancy says, you need to engineer a chance for me to meet him face- to-face.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ronald Reagan, 10 years Nancy's senior, was a well-known actor and a staunch anti-Communist.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the list was really a pretext to get to know Ronald Reagan, who was now a divorcee.
Sunday's "First Ladies" Examines Nancy Reagan.