Donna Reed’s personal life was marked by three marriages and four children. She married William J. Tuttle in 1943, Tony Owen in 1945, and Grover Asmus in 1974.
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Donna Reed was an American actress whose career spanned more than 40 years and is well known for her portrayal of Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra’s fantasy holiday film It’s a Wonderful Life.
Donna Reed replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow in the 1984–1985 season of the television melodrama Dallas. Reed had a supporting role in Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) and in Wallace Beery’s The Bugle Sounds (1942).
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Donna Reed played the role of a nurse in John Ford’s They Were Expendable (1945), opposite John Wayne. Reed played opposite Mickey Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) and starred in Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) and Apache Trail (1942).
Donna Reed starred in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) and Gentle Annie (1945), and was in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).
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