While recuperating in the hospital, President Reagan received a get well
card sent from the White House staff.  

  
               
               Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio) 

                           (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007)

Frankie Laine was a singer, songwriter, and actor with a career that 
spanned 75 years, from his first concert in 1930 with a dance company 
to this final performance of “That’s My Desire” in 2005. He was often 
billed as America’s Number One Song Stylist.

1956

1969

 
Laine recorded well-known theme songs for many Western
movie soundtracks

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s The King and I is a stage musical
based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The
production premiered at Broadway’s St. James Theater. It was an immediate hit,
winning Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Actress for Gertrude Lawrence and
Best Featured Actor for Yul Brynner. Lawrence died of cancer a year and a half
after the opening, and the role of Anna was played by other actresses during
the remainder of the Broadway run of over three years, 1,246 performances.

From left: Gertrude Lawrence (Anna Leonowens), Robin Craven (Sir Edward Ramsey) and Yul Brynner (The King)