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Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 – January 14,
1986) was an United States|American actor|actress.
Born Donna Belle Mullenger, Reed is probably best
remembered for her roles as the wholesome
housewife Donna Stone on American television's The
Donna Reed Show and as Mary Bailey in Frank
Capra|Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.  She won an
Academy Award for playing a prostitute in From
Here to Eternity. In her later years she
temporarily replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss
Ellie in the television series Dallas (TV
series)|Dallas in the 1984-1985 season. When Bel
Geddes was well enough to return to the role, Reed
was fired. She sued the show's production company
and received an undisclosed seven-figure
settlement.

She died at age 64 in Beverly Hills, California
from pancreas|pancreatic cancer and was interred
in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in
Los Angeles, California. 

The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts
was organized after her death in 1986.  The
non-profit organization grants scholarships for
performing arts students, runs an annual festival
of performing arts workshops, and operates The
Donna Reed Center for the Performing Arts.  The
performing arts center was formerly an opera house
built in 1914, and later rennovated into the Ritz
Movie Theater where Donna Reed first fell in love
with movies.

==Filmography==
*The Get-Away (1941)
*Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
*Babes on Broadway (1941)
*Personalities (1942) (short subject)
*The Bugle Sounds (1942)
*The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
*Mokey (1942)
*Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
*Apache Trail (1942)
*Eyes in the Night (1942)
*The Human Comedy (1943)
*Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
*The Man from Down Under (1943)
*Thousands Cheer (1943)
*See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
*Mrs. Parkington (1944)
*Gentle Annie (1944)
*The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
*They Were Expendable (1945)
*Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
*It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
*Green Dolphin Street (1947)
*Beyond Glory (1948)
*Chicago Deadline (1949)
*Screen Actors (1950) (short subject)
*Saturday's Hero (1951)
*Scandal Sheet (1952)
*Hangman's Knot (1952)
*Trouble Along the Way (1953)
*USSR Today (1953) (documentary)
*Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
*From Here to Eternity (1953)
*The Caddy (1953)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Laugh Parade (1953)
(short subject)
*Gun Fury (1953)
*They Rode West (1954)
*Three Hours to Kill (1954)
*The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
*The Far Horizons (1955)
*The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
*Ransom! (1956)
*Backlash (1956)
*Beyond Mombasa (1956)
*The Whole Truth (1958)
*Pepe (1960) (Cameo)
*Yellow-Headed Summer (1974)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0001656 | name=Donna Reed
*http://www.donnareed.org/ The Donna Reed
Foundation for the Performing Arts