Donna reed actress died

Actors , Media. By: Lawrence Walker. Donna Reed, Her career spanned over forty years with appearances in over forty films. Reed worked extensively in television, notably as Donna Stone, an American middle class mother in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show —66 , in which she played a more prominent role than many other television mothers of the era and for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in The eldest of five children, she was raised as a Methodist.

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After graduating from Denison High School, Reed planned to become a teacher, but was unable to pay for college. While attending college, she performed in various stage productions but had no plans to become an actress. After receiving several offers to screen test for studios, Reed eventually signed with MGM, but insisted on finishing her education first.

She personally answered letters from many GIs serving overseas. In , she struggled with an English accent and with a passive, underwritten role as Gladys Hallward in the first cinema adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The film has since been named as one of the best American films ever made by the American Film Institute and is regularly aired on television during the Christmas season.