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Everyone in town thinks she is the illegitimate daughter of the man played by Ronald Reagan. But at the end of the film “That Hagen Girl” (click for link) (1947), Mary Hagen, aka Shirley Temple, turns out to be just his mistress.

He: ever since his baby days he was called Dutch Reagan, because he looked exactly like that little guy on the Dutch Boy paint cans. His father Jack added, “He screams a lot for such a little bit of a fat Dutchman.” Friends and family called Ronnie during his entire life Dutch.

She: descended from Amsterdam and Schagen, offshoot of grandfather Maarten Claesz and grandmother Grietje Jannetje, and a host of other Dutch men and women. Until Grandma Marieke married an Englishman, Alex Temple.