Three people born on October 17th appeared in films with Donna Reed - Spring Byington, Marsha Hunt, and Montgomery Clift.

MGM released the film, Eyes in the Night, on October 16, 1942, starring Donna Reed and Edward Arnold.

Alice Pearce, the nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in "Bewitched," also made an appearance on The Donna Reed Show.

Angela Lansbury obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), which also starred Donna Reed.

Director Jeffrey Hayden discusses working with Donna Reed on The Donna Reed Show in a Television Academy Foundation interview.

Roger Moore made his Hollywood debut in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) with Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, and Walter Pidgeon.

Donna Reed appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's TV series, "Suspicion" as a young woman troubled by a recurring dream that raises suspicions.

Cornel Wilde and Donna Reed star in Beyond Mombasa (1956), the first junket for the production company of Donna Reed and husband Tony Owen.

Robert Walker stars with Donna Reed in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944). His title role was originally intended for Mickey Rooney.

The Best Place to Be (1979) helped launch the career of Stephanie Zimbalist. It starred her father, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. and Donna Reed.

Beyond Mombasa (1956) not only starred Donna Reed but was produced by Donna and her agent-turned-producer husband, Tony Owen.

In 2011, Time Magazine rated The Far Horizons (1955) as one of the top ten historically misleading films because of casting and subplots.

Buster Keaton, the famous silent screen star, had Donna Reed in stitches as he did a three-minute, unscripted routine on The Donna Reed Show

George Coulouris was quite adept at playing villains, but he was just as suitable at playing nobler roles.

Deborah Kerr co-starred with Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953).

Philip Dorn, best known for portraying the father in I Remember Mama (1948), co-stars with Donna Reed in Calling Dr. Gilespie (1942).

Ben Rappaport, a 2004 Donna Reed Scholarship national finalist in acting, has been cast in Doug Wright’s Good Night, Oscar which will play a

William WindomWindom appears in two episodes of The Donna Reed Show: “All is Forgiven” (S4, E 8) and “Wide Open Spaces” (S4, E25).

Lux Radio Theater aired an adaptation of How Green Was My Valley, Sept. 28, 1954, with Donna Reed and Donald Crisp reprising his film role.

Donna Reed appeared with Fay Holden and Andy Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) and got a better review than the film.