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The Donna Reed Foundation

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Children's Musical
Theatre Workshop for Grades K thru 8
June 13-18, 2022.

Do you remember when you first fell in love with

Donna Reed?

Enjoy the recent tribute to celebrate Donna.

Donna returns to television

The Best Place to Be not only marked Donna Reed's TV movie debut but also brought her back to television after a twelve-year absence.

She cut a beautiful figure

A Variety review calls Raiders of the Seven Seas a "good Pirate adventure" with an "entertaining" plot and refers to Donna Reed's costumes.

Two Iowa natives

John Wayne, born in Winterset, Iowa, appears with Donna Reed in two films - They Were Expendable (1945) and Trouble Along the Way (1953).

Now you see it, now you don't

John Payne appears with Donna Reed in the pirate film Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953). The film has a number of continuity problems.

He preferred being behind the camera

Robert Montgomery directed a few scenes, uncredited, in They Were Expendable (1954) when director John Ford took ill.

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