Van Johnson was never nominated for an Academy Award but has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He appears with Donna Reed in three films

Bob Crosby, the brother of famed singer and actor Bing Crosby, appears with Donna Reed as himself in the movie See Here, Private Hargrove.

Virginia Patton Moss, the last surviving adult cast member of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ dies at 97.

MGM released Faithful in My Fashion in 1946. The movie, starring Donna Reed and Tom Drake was not a hit, losing the studio $307,000.

Cecil Kellaway guest-stars on The Donna Reed Show in “The Fabulous O’Hara” (Season 4, Episode 13). He appears as a compulsive horse player.

Norma Connolly, along with several other close associates, was instrumental in founding The Donna Reed Foundation in Denison, Iowa

Alan Reed, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones," appears with Donna Reed in "The Far Horizons"(1955).

Donna Reed appears with Timothy Hutton in the television movie The Best Place To Be (1979) which marked her return to acting after 13 years.

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Donna Reed and Charles Coburn appear on a Screen Guild Theater radio adaption of "The Devil and Mrs. Jones."

John Derek, tagged as "an idol for the girls," appears with Donna Reed in the films Saturday’s Hero (1951) and Scandal Sheet (1952).

A young George Hamilton appears on The Donna Reed Show as Herbie Shields in "Have Fun" (Season 1, Episode 20).

Lloyd Nolan, known for his role as P.I. Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies, appears with Donna Reed in Apache Trail (1942).

Henry O'Neill, known for playing dignified gray-haired men, appears with Donna Reed in The Getaway (1941) and The Bugle Sounds (1942).

Donna Reed's career began an upswing when her movies, The Caddy and From Here to Eternity, were both released within days of each other.

Leo Genn, “the man with the black velvet voice”, appears with Donna Reed in the film Beyond Mombasa (1956).

Esther Williams were close friends since the early 1940s when they were rising MGM contract stars. She guest-starred on The Donna Reed Show.

When Donna Reed appeared with Ann Harding in Eyes In The Night (1942), even the seeing-eye shepherd dog made the New York Times review.

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In 2002, From Here to Eternity was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.