Toured with Spike Jones
Doodles Weaver began his career as a comedian touring with the Spike Jones Music Revue. He made four appearances on The Donna Reed Show.
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Through their eyes
LifetimeTelevision's "Intimate Portrait" looked back at the life of Donna Reed through the eyes of actors and family members in 1999.
She was a carryover character
Donna Reed's character in "Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case" (1943) originated in the film " Dr. Gillespie (1942).
Donna invited an Oscar winner
The Donna Reed Show stretched the envelope in 1962 by inviting Miyoshi Umeki for an episode about an interracial couple.
She just looked decorative
Stewart Granger appears with Donna Reed in the film The Whole Truth (1958). A Variety review called the film "a routine effort ."
Donna called him three times
The Donna Reed Show stretched the envelope by bringing sports figure Willie Mays into the show, something never done before.
Both nominee and presenter
Donna Reed was both a nominee and a presenter at the 11th Emmy Awards in 1959 to honor the best in television of the year.
Happy Cinco de Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo from The Donna Reed Foundation.
She sang on the last episode
Singer and songwriter Lesley Gore appears in the last episode of The Donna Reed Show singing her hit song, "It's My Party."
He was worried
Producer Tony Owen made six films and "all of them stink but they made money." But he worried about the good one made with wife Donna Reed.
He was a box office draw
Glenn Ford appears with Donna Reed in Ransom (1956). Reviews said the plot was implausible, and the performances fabricated and theatrical.
The blue-eyed cowboy
Mark Slade, best known as Blue Cannon in the western series, The High Chaparral (1967), also appeared on The Donna Reed Show (S8, E10).
Another Iowa native
Cloris Leachman won eight Emmy awards, tying with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She guests on The Donna Reed Show in Season 4 in Mouse at Play.
His own radio show
Walter Pidgeon had his own radio show which featured 26 of the most popular female film stars of the era, including Donna Reed.
Leading man to horror and sci-fi
The Man From Down Under was a film in which Richard Carlson and Donna Reed found themselves cast in a helpless, foolish situation.
The villainous Mr. Potter
Lionel Barrymore played the radio role of the miserly Scrooge from 1934 to 1953. It led to his role as Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
The neighbor from Mr. Ed
Florence MacMichael, known for her roles in My Three Sons, Mister Ed, and The Andy Griffith Show, also appeared on The Donna Reed Show.
Her frumpy role.
Donna Reed appears with Cecilia Parker in The Courtship of Andy Hardy. Donna later complained to MGM's Louis B. Mayer about her frumpy role.
Will he convince her?
The Bob Hope Show was one of the longest-running radio programs in the golden age of American radio. Donna Reed appears in this episode.
A rejected photo
Here's a rarely published photograph of Donna Reed taken by Bob Landry during a photo shoot for Life Magazine.
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