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Listen to Donna on live radio
Listen as Donna Reed appears with Charlton Heston on radio as he recreates his movie role as a plantation owner in The Naked Jungle (1954).
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She only wanted $17.50
During the bank run in It's a Wonderful Life, Ellen Corby asks for her money with a line that surprised Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.
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M-G-M replaced Donna
Donna Reed was to appear with Frank Morgan in The Stratton Story but the poor box office performance of It's A Wonder Life changed things.
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Their first professional collaboration
Beyond Mombasa stars Donna Reed and Cornel Wilde. Her husband, Tony Owen, produced it and it was their first professional collaboration.
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His push toward stardom
Gregory Harrison, known for the CBS series Trapper John, M.D.(1979–86), appears with Donna Reed in the TV movie The Best Place To Be (1979)
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The Donna Reed Foundation
A Memorial Day salute from The Donna Reed Foundation.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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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A low budget film
Donna Reed once campaigned to have Sacajawea, the role she played in the film The Far Horizons, elected to the Hall of Fame.
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The censors objected
Jimmy Stewart was nervous about the phone kiss in It's a Wonderful Life but filmed it in one take. Part of it was cut as far too passionate.
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Mary's dilemma
Watch Bobby Burgess, one of Disney's original Mouseketeers, play a football player in “Mary’s Double Date” on The Donna Reed Show.
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Barbara edged her out
Barbara Stanwyck edged out Donna Reed on the 13th Annual Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
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They refused to bail
When The Donna Reed Show premiered, Campbell's Soup was the sponsor. By the fourth show, everyone was prepared for the show to be canceled.
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He kept coming back
Richard Deacon is known for playing recurring roles on television shows. Watch him in four episodes of The Donna Reed Show.
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Donna Reed: My Mom, My Mother
Actor Paul Petersen of THE DONNA REED SHOW and Mary Owen, daughter of Donna Reed, discuss memories of their respective mothers.
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Another radio appearance
Donna Reed appeared in a broadcast of "A Letter from Rio" on the CBS radio anthology, Stars over Hollywood.
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Hear Donna on radio
Donna Reed, John Lund, and Glenn Langan guest-star in Song for a Long Road, the story of American poet Joyce Kilmer. Hear the broadcast.
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