Bedtime for Bonzo
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Starring: Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Jesse White, Ann Tyrrell, Brad Johnson and Jacqui Johnston as "Bonzo"
Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova, starring future U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Diana Lynn .....
This movie is one of the most remembered of Reagan's acting career and renewed his popularity as a movie star for a while. Reagan, however, never even saw the film until 1984.
The film was later referenced in connection with Reagan in the 1986 Ramones song "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", and in a track on a 1984 Jerry Harrison record, sampling Reagan and credited to "Bonzo Goes to Washington".
A song unflattering to Reagan entitled "Bad Time for Bonzo" is featured on The Damned's fourth studio album, Strawberries.
It was also referenced in a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, as well as in the Strontium Dog comic story "*****", published in 2000AD (comic), which featured President Ronald Reagan being kidnapped out of his own era and taken into the far flung future setting of the comic.
Other notable references include the 1966 Stan Freberg comedy album Freberg Underground, and the 1986 video of the British band Genesis's song "Land Of Confusion".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo