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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Another radio appearance
Donna Reed appeared in a broadcast of "A Letter from Rio" on the CBS radio anthology, Stars over Hollywood.
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.
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.
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).
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 ."
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.
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).
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.
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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