The producers were initially required to pay the actors fees, but they ultimately settled for pensions instead. However, they were still required to pay residuals for films after 1959. Reagan resigned from the SAG presidency on June 7, 1960 and also left the board;[64] George Chandler succeeded him as SAG president.[65]

Marriages and children
Reagan and Jane Wyman, 1942Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1952
Reagan married Brother Rat (1938) co-star Jane Wyman[66] on January 26, 1940.[67] Together, they had two biological daughters, Maureen in 1941,[68] and Christine,[69] born prematurely and dead the next day in 1947.[70] They adopted one son, Michael, in 1945.[49] In 1948, Wyman filed to divorce Reagan, citing "mental cruelty".[67] Wyman was uninterested in politics, and she would occasionally separate and reconcile with Reagan. Although Reagan was unprepared,[70] they split amicably,[67] and the divorce was finalized in July 1949. Reagan would also remain close to his children.[71] Later that year, Reagan met Nancy Davis after she contacted him in his capacity as the SAG president about her name appearing on a communist blacklist in Hollywood; she had been mistaken for another Nancy Davis.