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Donna Reed |
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Birth Place: Denison, Iowa, USA
Birthday:January 27, 1921
Height:5' 7"
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- Despite her association with the squeaky-clean and conservative 1950s, Reed became an anti-nuclear activist and anti-Vietnam protester. She also founded the group Another Mother for Peace.
- Her last husband Grover Asmus started a program called the Donna Reed Foundation that led to the Donna Reed festival held yearly in Denison, IA. It's a celebration of Donna, and includes classes, performances. Many stars attend such as Shelly Faberes, Debbie Reynolds, and Loren Janes
- In the scene from "It's a Wonderful Life" where she and James Stewart throw rocks at the old Granville house, director Frank Capra had originally planned to use a double in Donna's place to throw the rock. Miss Reed, however, was an accomplished baseball player in high school and threw very well, as evidenced by her toss in the movie.
- Measurements: 34B-24-34 (measured in 1954), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Four children by husband/producer 'Tony Owen' (III) : Penny, Tony, Timothy, and Mary. Two were adopted. Mary, their last child, was born to them in 1957, a year before the start of Donna's classic TV show, which Tony executive produced.
- Learned of her firing from "Dallas" from a reporter while on a vacation to Paris. She was in the process of suing the shows producers before her death in January, 1986.
- The woman on the cover of Rush's 'Permanent Waves' album is modeled after her.
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