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Donna Reed
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BIRTHDAY
January 27, 1921
Denison, IA
DIED
January 14, 1986
RECENT CREDITS
Pepe
(FILM)
Dec. 1, 1960
The Whole Truth
(FILM)
Dec. 8, 1958
Beyond Mombasa
(FILM)
Jun. 1, 1957
The Benny Goodman Story
(FILM)
Dec. 1, 1955
The Far Horizons
(FILM)
Jun. 1, 1955
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Reed was elected beauty queen of her high school and Campus Queen of her college. The latter honor resulted in her photo making the L.A. papers, and as a result she was invited to take a screen test with MGM, which....
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Reed was elected beauty queen of her high school and Campus Queen of her college. The latter honor resulted in her photo making the L.A. papers, and as a result she was invited to take a screen test with MGM, which signed her in 1941. She played supporting roles in a number of minor films (at first being billed as "Donna Adams"), then in the mid '40s she began getting leads; with rare exceptions, she portrayed sincere, wholesome types and loving wives and girlfriends. She went against type playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Rarely getting rewarding roles, she retired from the screen in 1958 to star in the TV series "The Donna Reed Show," which was a great success and remained on the air through 1966. After 1960 she appeared in only one more film. In the mid '80s she emerged from retirement to star in "Dallas;" Barbara Bel Geddes returned to the show in 1985, and Reed won a $1 million settlement for a breach of contract suit against the show's producers. She died of cancer several months later.
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Pepe
Released: Dec. 1, 1960
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Released: Jun. 1, 1957
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The Benny Goodman Story
Released: Feb. 21, 1956
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Released: Jun. 1, 1955
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Released: Sep. 1, 1954
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Released: Jan. 1, 1954
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Released: Aug. 1, 1953
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Released: Jul. 1, 1953
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Released: Apr. 4, 1953
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