Donna Reed

Also Credited As:

Donna Adams, Donna Belle Mullenger
Photo of Donna Reed

Biography

Reed specialized in girl-next-door types after signing with MGM in 1941. Her role as a courageous Navy nurse in John Ford's "They Were Expendable" (1945) brought her to the attention of Frank Capra, who paired her with James Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). Long before it was canonized as a holiday classic, Capra's paean to small-town American life was written off as a failure, prompting the producers of the baseball biopic "The …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

January 27, 1921

LATEST CREDITS

The Donna Reed Show

Donna Stone; Alex's wife

The Best Place to Be

Sheila Callahan

Deadly Lessons

Miss Wade

It's a Wonderful Life

Mary Hatch

Beyond Mombasa

Ann Wilson

The Benny Goodman Story

Alice Hammond

Trouble Along the Way

Alice Singleton

Three Hours to Kill

Laurie Mastin

Gun Fury

Jennifer Ballard

Ransom

Edith Stannard

The Caddy

Kathy Taylor

Green Dolphin Street

Actor

They Were Expendable

Actor

Dallas

Eleanor Ewing

The Far Horizons

Sacajawea

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Marion Ellswirth

From Here to Eternity

Alma

Ride Lonesome

Actor

The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra

Actor

Pepe

Herself