Overview
Born : January 27, 1921 in Denison, Iowa, USA
Died : January 14, 1986 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pancreatic cancer)
Birth Name : Donnabelle Mullenger
Height : 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Donna Reed was brought into the world in the midwestern town of Denison, Iowa, on January 27, 1921, as Donna Belle Mullenger. A modest community - a populace of under 3,000 individuals - Denison was situated by the Boyer River, and was the area seat of Crawford County. Donna grew up as a homestead young lady, similar as numerous little youngsters in western Iowa, aside from a certain something - Donna was extremely lovely. That wasn't to say that others weren't as beautiful, it's simply that Donna's excellence stood apart from the wide range of various nearby young ladies, to such an extent that she won a wonder challenge in Denison. Upon graduation from secondary school Donna left for school in Los Angeles, with expectations of at last entering motion pictures. While at Los Angeles City College, she sought after her fantasy by taking an interest in a few school stage creations. Notwithstanding the plays, she likewise came out on top for the championship of Campus Queen. At one of those stage plays Donna was spotted by a MGM headhunter and was endorsed to an agreement. Her first film was a minor job in MGM's The Get-Away (1941). That was trailed by a little part in Babes on Broadway (1941), with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as a secretary. A while later, MGM started giving her better parts, in movies like The Bugle Sounds (1942), The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) and The Man from Down Under (1943). In 1944 she got second charging playing Carol Halliday in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944), a satire about a correspondent drafted into the military who in the long run gets together with Donna's personality as a laborer in the container. The next year Donna featured in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), her best job to date. It was a romantic tale set in London in 1890. It got blended basic surveys however got along nicely in the cinematic world. Donna was currently one of the main women of Hollywood. In 1946 she featured in what the future held referred to job, as the spouse of James Stewart in the exemplary It's a Wonderful Life (1946). This ageless story is an occasion staple right up 'til today. The film likewise featured Lionel Barrymore and Thomas Mitchell. The following year Donna featured as Ann Daniels in Paramount's Beyond Glory (1948) with Alan Ladd, which got along nicely in the cinematic world. Her next job was the most grounded she had at this point - Chicago Deadline (1949), again with Ladd. It was one of the most amazing secret dramatizations to emerge from Hollywood in quite a while, and got along admirably in the cinema world. As the 1940s became dull and the 1950s raged in, Donna's jobs got greater however were for the most part of the healthy, young lady nearby sort. In 1953, be that as it may, she featured as the lady Alma in the broadly acclaimed From Here to Eternity (1953). She was so great in that film she was assigned for and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, destroying such veterans as Thelma Ritter and Marjorie Rambeau. The actual film won for Best Picture and stays an exemplary right up 'til the present time. Soon thereafter Donna featured in The Caddy (1953), a satire with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. After three years she handled the job of Sacajawea in The Far Horizons (1955), the account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, featuring Charlton Heston and Fred MacMurray. In the wake of completing The Whole Truth (1958), Donna started her own TV series (created by her significant other), The Donna Reed Show (1958), a hit that ran for a considerable length of time. She was so viable in the show that she was named for TV's renowned Emmy Award as Best Actress consistently from 1959-1962. She was definitely more well known in TV than on the screen. After the run of the program, Donna removed some time from the big time prior to returning several made-for-TV motion pictures (in 1974, she had made an element called Yellow-Headed Summer (1974), yet it was rarely delivered). She got the job of Ellie Ewing Farlow in the hit TV series Dallas (1978) during the 1984-85 season. It was to be her last open presentation. On January 14, 1986, under about fourteen days before her 65th birthday celebration, she passed on from pancreatic malignant growth in Beverly Hills, California. Grover Asmus, her better half, made the Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts in her old neighborhood of Denison. The establishment helps other people who want a profession in human expression. Donna always remembered her foundations. She was as yet a homestead young lady on a fundamental level.
Regardless of her relationship with the clean as a whistle and moderate 1950s, Reed turned into an enemy of atomic extremist and against Vietnam dissenter. She likewise established the gathering Another Mother for Peace.
Her last spouse Grover Asmus began a program called the Donna Reed Foundation that prompted the Donna Reed celebration held yearly in Denison, IA. It's a festival of Donna, and incorporates classes, exhibitions. Many stars go to like Shelley Fabares, Debbie Reynolds, and Loren Janes.
In the scene from It's a Wonderful Life (1946) where she and James Stewart toss rocks at the old Granville house, chief Frank Capra had initially wanted to involve a twofold in Donna's place to toss the stone. Miss Reed, nonetheless, was a cultivated baseball player in secondary school and tossed well overall, as confirmed by her throw in the film.
Four youngsters with spouse/maker Tony Owen : Penny Owen, Tony Owen Jr., Timothy Owen and Mary Owen. Two were taken on. Mary, their last youngster, was brought into the world to them in 1957, a year prior to the beginning of Donna's exemplary TV show, which Tony chief delivered.
Gained of her terminating from Dallas (1978) from a columnist while on a get-away to Paris. She was currently suing the show's makers before her demise in January, 1986.
The lady on the front of Rush's Permanent Waves collection is designed according to her.
In Italy, a lot of her movies were named by Renata Marini and Dhia Cristiani (most outstandingly From Here to Eternity (1953)). Sometimes she was likewise named by Miranda Bonansea (in Green Dolphin Street (1947)), Rosetta Calavetta and Micaela Giustiniani. The incomparable Lydia Simoneschi additionally loaned her voice to Reed in Frank Capra's highly observed It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
Account in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 725-727. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Despite the fact that her picture was for the most part related that of the immaculate, moderate 1950s housewife and mother, she won her Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953) for playing a whore.
Had a cozy relationship with her TV little girl, Shelley Fabares. Was considered by Fabares as her second mother until Reed's passing in 1986.
Ex-sister by marriage of Thomas Tuttle.
She was a long lasting Republican.
Was the 39th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953) at The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954) on March 25, 1954.
She was of English, as well as a few German and Irish, family. A portion of her ancestors were Canadian-conceived.
Maternal granddaughter of Charles (1860-1936) and Mary Etta Petty (1866-1947). Both were brought up in Illinois.
Little girl of William Richard Mullenger (1893-1981) and Hazel Jane Shives (1899-1975). Both were brought up in Iowa.
Fatherly granddaughter of William G. Mullenger (1857-1934), brought into the world in Wisconsin, and Mary Ann Johnston (1864-1955), brought into the world in Illinois.
Fatherly incredible granddaughter of Richard Bartley Johnston (1833-1913), brought into the world in Illinois, and Elizabeth Herner (1841-1917), brought into the world in Canada.
Is one of 13 entertainers who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a film that additionally won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for From Here to Eternity (1953)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer versus Kramer (1979), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for quite some time a Slave (2013).
Gone to the LACC Theater Academy. Different graduated class incorporate Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill, Cindy Williams, and Rene Aranda.
Referenced in the tune, "Living Dead Girl", by Rob Zombie.
Brought forth her fourth youngster [2nd biological] at age 36, a little girl Mary Anne Owen - otherwise known as Mary Owen - on May 7, 1957. Youngster's dad was her then, at that point, spouse, Tony Owen.
Brought forth her third youngster [1st biological] at age 28, a child Timothy Grant Owen on July 19, 1949. Youngster's dad was her then, at that point, spouse, Tony Owen.
Was in three Oscar Best Picture candidates; The Human Comedy (1943), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and From Here to Eternity (1953), with From Here to Eternity winning.
She has showed up in two movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or stylishly" huge: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and From Here to Eternity (1953).
List of Donna Reed Movies
- Dallas (TV Series)
- The Love Boat (TV Series)
- Deadly Lessons (TV Movie)
- The Best Place to Be (TV Movie)
- Pepe
- The Whole Truth
- Suspicion (TV Series)
- General Electric Theater (TV Series)
- Beyond Mombasa
- Backlash
- Ransom!
- The Benny Goodman Story
- Tales of Hans Anderson (TV Series)
- The Far Horizons
- The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)
- The Last Time I Saw Paris
- They Rode West
- Three Hours to Kill
- The Big Moment (Short)
- Gun Fury
- The Caddy
- From Here to Eternity
- Raiders of the Seven Seas
- Trouble Along the Way
- Hangman's Knot
- Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
- Scandal Sheet
- Idols in the Dust
- Chicago Deadline
- Beyond Glory
- Green Dolphin Street
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Faithful in My Fashion
- They Were Expendable
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Gentle Annie
- See Here, Private Hargrove
- Thousands Cheer
- The Man from Down Under
- Crazy to Kill
- The Human Comedy
- Personalities (Short) (uncredited)
- Eyes in the Night
- Apache Trail
- Calling Dr. Gillespie
- Mokey
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy
- The Bugle Sounds
- Babes on Broadway
- Shadow of the Thin Man
- The Get-Away
- Convicted Woman & Many more…..
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