Jackie Schmillen, a 1998 Donna Reed Scholar and TV host, visits with Jimmy Hawkins about his role as Tommy Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.

Watch Marjorie Redmond, best known as Sister Jacqueline in The Flying Nun, make a guest appearance on The Donna Reed Show.

Donna Reed made her film debut with Dailey in The Get-Away (1941). A year later, they co-starred in Mokey (1942) along with Bobby Blake.

Donna Reed screen-tested with Van Heflin when she first signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, later appearing with him in Green Dolphin Street.

Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart reprised their It's a Wonderful Life roles on the Stars in the Air radio broadcast on December 13, 1951.

Sammy Davis Sr. appeared with Donna Reed in the movie The Benny Goodman Story (1956).

From Here to Eternity turned out to be a monumental film for both Donna Reed and Frank Sinatra, providing them with critical acclaim.

Oscar- and Golden Globe-winner Broderick Crawford appears with Donna Reed in the 1951 film, Scandal Sheet.

Hurd Hatfield and Donna Reed star in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).

Fay Bainter played Donna Reed's mother in the film The Human Comedy (1943). Donna later invited her as a guest star on The Donna Reed Show.

The Weird Story of the FBI and "It’s a Wonderful Life’" told by Smithsonian's Kat Eschner. The film supposedly had Communist tendencies.

In the early 1980s, Donna Reed was briefly a Tulsa resident. Her husband, Grover W. Asmus, had an engineering job and she came with him.

On Dec. 1, 1940, Donna Reed was elected Campus Queen of Los Angeles City College. Photographs brought her to the attention of talent scouts.

Efrem Zimbalist appeared with Donna Reed in the TV movie The Best Place To Be (1979), marking Donna's return to acting after 13 years.

Gloria Grahame appears as the sultry Violet in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) but MGM later sold her contract to RKO Studios.

What happens when a football team moves to Los Angeles and meets Hollywood's golden age and television?

When Lux Radio Theater aired To Please a Lady, Donna Reed was asked to read the part played by Barbara Stanwyck in the movie.

Frank Capra used a new form of snow while filming It's a Wonderful Life during a July heat wave. It allowed live dialogue in falling snow.

Marlo Thomas guest-stars on The Donna Reed Show in "Guests, Guests, Who Needs Guests" (Season 7, Episode 26).

Donna Reed's second movie for MGM was Shadow of the Thin Man, the fourth of the six The Thin Man films with William Powell and Myrna Loy.