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

Leo Genn, a lawyer turned actor, was known as “the man with the black velvet voice.” He appears with Donna Reed in "Beyond Mombasa" (1956).

Donna Reed and Esther Williams were close friends, meeting in the early 1940s when they were rising MGM contract stars.

Ann Harding appears with Donna Reed in the movie, Eyes in the Night (1942). Even the "seeing-eye" dog made the New York Times review.

Donna Reed strayed from her typecasting to play a ''hostess'' in a club for soldiers in the 1953 film version of ''From Here to Eternity.''

The Man From Down Under (1943), starring Charles Laughton with Donna Reed, was Hollywood's first film dealing exclusively with Australia.

Donna Reed stars with Alan Ladd in the 1948 film Beyond Glory (originally known as The Long Gray Line).

Jay North appears as his character, "Dennis," on The Donna Reed Show in a show crossover “Donna Decorates” (Season 3, Episode 3).

Keenan Wynn appears with Donna Reed in the film See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) in the role of Pvt. Mulvehill.

Willie Mays, Don Drysdale, and Leo Durocher appear on The Donna Reed Show in "Play Ball" (Season 7, Episode 3).

Yale Summers got a break early in his career by appearing in two episodes of The Donna Reed Show in Season 5.

Don Drysdale was the first sports figure to appear on a television series on The Donna Reed Show (Season 4, Episode 27).

Donna Reed recreates the title role of Maureen O'Sullivan in the MGM Theatre of the Air broadcast of My Dear Miss Aldrich.

Check the photos of The Donna Reed Foundation's summer theater workshop camp. You decide if they enjoyed it.

The Donna Reed Foundation conducts a popular week-long musical theater camp for students in grades K-8 every summer in Denison, Iowa.

Red Skelton appears with Donna Reed in the musical comedy film, Thousands Cheer (1943).

Chill Wills, the voice of Francis the Talking Mule in the film series, appears with Donna Reed in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944).

Will women ever get to exist without the pressure to please the male species? A university student weighs in on The Donna Reed Show.

Donna Reed came to series television at the end of the golden age. Filming began on The Donna Reed Show on July 14, 1958.

Bob Crane joined the cast of The Donna Reed Show in the latter part of Season 5, as Dr. Dave Kelsey, a colleague of Alex.