Donna Reed Movies

Want to know the best Donna Reed movies?  How about the worst Donna Reed movies?  Curious about Donna Reed box office grosses or which Donna Reed movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Donna Reed movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Donna Reed (1921-1986) was an Oscar®-winning American actress who appeared in many box office successes from 1941 to 1960. Her IMDb page shows 51 acting credits from 1941-1985. This page will rank 39 Donna Reed movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Reed’s 8 television roles, her two uncredited roles and her short were not included in these rankings.  This page comes from a request by John and Lupino.

Montgomery Clift and Donna Reed in 1953’s From Here To Eternity

Donna Reed Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Donna Reed Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Donna Reed movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Donna Reed movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Donna Reed movies by domestic yearly box office rank
  • Sort Donna Reed movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Donna Reed movie received.
  • Sort Donna Reed movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Donna Reed Table

  1. Eighteen Donna Reed movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 46.15% of her movies listed. From Here To Eternity (1953) was her biggest box office hit.
  2. An average Donna Reed movie grosses $109.80 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  21 Donna Reed movies are rated as good movies…or 53.84% of her movies.  It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) was her highest rated movie while The Far Horizons (1955) was her lowest rated movie.
  4. Eight Donna Reed movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 20.51% of her movies.
  5. Four Donna Reed movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.26% of her movies.
  6. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 22 Donna Reed movies scored higher than that average….or 56.41% of her movies.  From Here To Eternity (1953) got the the highest UMR Score while Mokey (1942) got the lowest UMR Score.

James Stewart and Donna Reed in 1946’s It’s A Wonderful Life

Possibly Interesting Facts About Donna Reed

1. Donna Belle Mullenger was born on a farm near Denison, Iowa in 1921.

2. She was first billed as Donna Adams and then MGM finally decided on Donna Reed.  MGM changed her name as there was anti-German prejudice during World War II.

3. While at Los Angeles City College, Donna Reed appeared in several college stage productions. At one of those stage plays Reed was spotted by an MGM talent scout and was signed to a contract.

4. Donna Reed appeared in 12 $100 million adjusted box office hits during the 1940s and 5 $100 million adjusted box office hits in the 1950s.

5. Donna Reed was nominated for one Oscar®….but she made it count….as she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for 1953’s From Here To Eternity.

6. Donna Reed was married three times and had 4 children.

7. After Donna Reed’s movie career slowed down she became an evener bigger star on television.  The Donna Reed Show ran from 1958 to 1966….she appeared in 275 episodes of that show.

8. Check out Donna Reed‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Not enough stats for you?….Then check out 17 Donna Reed worldwide adjusted grosses

  1. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) $53.80 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  2. Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) $200.80 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  3. Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case (1943) $62.10 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  4. Eyes in the Night (1942) $81.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  5. Faithful In My Fashion (1946) $40.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  6. Green Dolphin Street (1947) $442.00 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  7. Human Comedy, The (1943) $306.70 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  8. Last Time I Saw Paris, The (1954) $259.00 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  9. Man From Down Under, The (1943) $85.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  10. Mokey (1942) $22.90 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  11. Pepe (1960) $221.60 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  12. Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945) $205.40 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  13. Ransom! (1956) $92.70 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  14. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) $224.10 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  15. They Were Expendable (1945) $305.40 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  16. Thousands Cheer (1943) $472.20 million in adjusted worldwide box office
  17. Trouble Along the Way (1953) $129.30 million in adjusted worldwide box office

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46 thoughts on “Donna Reed Movies

  1. HI STEVE: As I suspected there are exchanges below between you and me that show that I did watch and comment on your Donna Reed video. The following is an extraction from them of the observations which sum up my own main perceptions of Donna’s overall career on the big screen and television.

    “I always regarded Donna Reed’s career as an uneven one in that she had plum roles in two of the most important movies of all time – It’s a Wonderful Life and From Here to Eternity: form the ‘girl next door’ to a hooker! – and yet spent a large part of her career in B movies such as the westerns Hangman’s Knot, 3 Hours to Kill, Gun Fury and They Rode West all of which are included in your selections.

    I can never recall her in the actual lead in any of her flicks and in the 1950s her movie career wound down but luckily she got into a highly successful TV show which ran for 8 seasons from 1958-1966. She reminded me a bit of Teresa Wright in appearance and screen manner.”

    I have now enjoyed watching the video again and my listings are in Part 3; and as I mentioned to you yesterday these limited selections represent my perception of the “Best of Lensman” so the Top 10s therefore get an overall 99% rating which of course would reduce to a lower figure if I was marking a greater number of your entries.

  2. STEVE:
    1 I always regarded Donna Reed’s career as an uneven one in that she had plum roles in two of the most important movies of all time – It’s a Wonderful Life and From Here to Eternity – and yet spent a large part of her career in B movies such as the westerns Hangman’s Knot, 3 Hours to Kill, Gun Fury and They Rode West all of which are included in your selections. I can never recall her in the actual lead in any of her flicks and in the 1950s her movie career wound down but luckily she got into a highly successful TV show which ran for 8 seasons from 1958-1966. She reminded me a bit of Teresa Wright in appearance and screen manner.

    2 Best POSTERS for my money were The Getaway, The Whole Truth, Eyes in the Night, Hangman’s Knot and especially the stirring one for Gun Fury and Chicago Deadline central to the latter of which was a prominent Laddie in iconic pose. I liked the STILLS for Beyond Glory ***featuring Donna again with Ladd and Donna solo in The Picture of Dorian Gray; but par excellence I thought were the colourful lobby cards for Donna/Chuck/Fred in The Far Horizons and with my Richard in Backlash. ***An added attraction of this still was that you can see in the background America’s most decorated combat soldier turned actor in a small role.in his 2nd only movie. I almost missed him in my first viewing of the video!

    3 You and Bruce agree on ALL of the Top 5, albeit in a different order, and I thought overall the video was worth a 94% rating.

    1. Hi Bob, thanks for the reviewing and rating my Donna Reed video, much appreciated.

      Glad you liked the pictorial presentation.

      I see you found Bruce’s Donna Reed page, she wasn’t on the UMR index page last time I looked. But I knew he had done a page on Donna. I wonder how many other names Bruce had forgotten to add to the index.

      Oh look there’s the chief… no wait, false alarm. 🙂 I think Bruce’s interest in the site is waning Bob, sad sad sad, I wonder if he even reads our comments anymore.

      I’ve only seen a handful of these films, the highest rated ones for sure. As usual looking at these posters makes me want to seek some of these films out.

      Robert Montgomery was the lead actor in They Were Expendable, John Wayne second billed. But the Italian poster has Wayne listed first next to John Ford’s name, and artwork of Wayne in action dominates. They’ve even spelt Donna Reeds name wrong ‘Donna Redd’. That poster might be worth something if anyone has the original.

      Three of Donna’s films score 10 out of 10 on my ‘scoresheet’ – They Were Expendable, From Here to Eternity and It’s a Wonderful Life.

      1. STEVE
        It is sad that WH seems to have lost interest in a wonderful site that he took years to build up. He obviously doesn’t believe in the saying that “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. When I am sad it sometimes mitigates the sadness for me if think of the situation in terms of a poetic simile and in the present instance it is comforting to remember the poem by Lady Carolina Nairne about the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie*** [presumably from your distant English ancestors],

        Bonniey Brucie’s now awa;
        Threatnin tis that to our sane,
        Mony a heart will break in twa,
        Should he no come back again.

        Ye trusted in yr viewsome men,
        They trusted ye dear Brucie!
        They can’t your hiding in your den,
        Stats and comments leaving.

        Will ye no come back again?
        Will ye no come back again?
        Better lovd ye canna be;
        Will ye no come back again?

        ***In the 1948 film Bonnie Prince Charlie England’s David Niven played the Italian born Scottish hero . Even in the Halcyon days of this site when Bruce did turn up he appears to have ignored that movie on his Niven page.

        1. 🙂

          Oh Brucie Brucie wherefore art thou Brucie.

          But who’s putting these new pages up Bob, WoC? His children? Or maybe a special program that collects data on each actor on the request list and produces a new page at intervals? That must be it, it’s all automated, the site is run by artificial intelligence, nooooooo! 🙂

          1. STEVE

            1 I am sure that out there somewhere there is a viewer who is bitterly annoyed that his/her valuable and well though out comments have been ignored recently and who is tempted to say that whether or not the Work Horse is putting up the new pages such as the latest for Howard Keel the intelligence at work is anyhow “artificial”!

            2 It actually struck me that maybe he had already delegated the site to someone knowledgeable like you, Flora or John and one of you was providing the latest material sort of like Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer. If you want to watch a good movie about how we can all be tricked by wilfully perpetuated illusions watch Edmond O’Brien in The Third Voice (1960).

            3 Anyway this has now become a bit like Jack Palance’s description of his character in the 1955 The Big Knife who even when absent from the screen is talked about non-stop by the other characters.

          2. STEVE
            POSTSCRIPT

            1 At first I thought that maybe John was our Ghost Writer but as you have pointed out he too seems to have gone AWOL. I doubt the validity of your suggestion that maybe my gentle ribbing has driven him away because he NEVER heeds anything that I have to say.

            2 Anyway I have suddenly remembered that if you flick back through Flora’s past posts you will see that on one occasion when the Work Horse announced that he was going on holiday Flora asked him if she could substitute for him so she is now my prime suspect as the Ghost Writer and if so she has produced a fine comprehensive Howard Keel new page for us. I think both you and I have been awaiting that page for some time now.

  3. 1 Donna’s most prestigious performances were probably in It’s a Wonderful Life and From Here to Eternity However growing up in the 1950s I was not very interested in Donna’s appearance in From Here to Eternity but loved her in the less important run of movies that she made in that decade – Gun Fury with Hudson, Hangman’s Knot with Randolph Scott, Ransom with Glenn Ford, 3 Hours to Kill with Dana Andrews, Beyond Mombasa with Cornel Wilde, Laddie’s Chicago Deadline, Far Horizons with Chuck and Fred and Backlash with Richard Widmark.

    2 I was very interested in the mention of Donna’s great success on TV. Over here we never got The Donna Reed Show but I had two aunts who immigrated to the US in the mid-fifties and who would come back to Belfast to visit us from time to time and they would rave about Donna’s show and the Loretta Young Show too. My aunts were fashion nuts and loved the clothes Loretta wore in the show!

    NB: The Cogerson site is at it again creating its own special AKAs! On this page the John Derek/Broderick Crawford co-starrer Scandal SHEET gets the inventive Cogerson treatment !

    1. Great… there’s me and Bruce chatting away about Scandal Street in our posts oblivious to the fact it’s actually ‘Scandal Sheeeet’. Fine pair of movie buffs we are. To be fair there are a couple of films titled ‘Scandal Street’. 🙂

      1. Did Bruce give them ALL akas? For example was Eddie Robinson’s Scarlet Street a Cogerson AKA for Scandal Street on Eddie’s site?

        PS I think Jeff Chandler made the kind of movies that would yield a fine run of exciting posters. For example his film “Yankee Pasha” whose tagline was “The strange romantic adventure of the Yank who Ruled Morocco!” And to think that you Brits used to be accused of being THE Imperialists.

          1. Bob, the funny thing is M is nowhere near W on the keyboard so it couldn’t be a mistype, unless Bruce was looking at his keyboard from an awkward position, was he typing from his bedroom? [Stop it Steve this is a family site!]

            I will add Jeff ‘Cochise’ Chandler to my video list.

            My next video features a nearly forgotten b-movie western star who tragically died in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in 1942, a fire which claimed nearly 500 lives!

    2. Hey Bob
      1. I original thought it was Steve…that brought up my Scandal Sheet error…..but I now realize it was you that I need to thank….thanks for the catch….it is greatly appreciated.
      2. Sounds like you aunts were huge television fans…..thanks for sharing their favorite things to do….I imagine lots of women did that back then…saw a dress on a show and then went out and bought that dress…..the late Mary Tyler Moore was a fashion queen in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
      3. Surprised you were not a FHTE fan…..the only two Reed movies you mentioned that you liked that I have seen are The Far Horizons (did not like it at all) and Gun Fury (having a hard time even remembering her part).
      Good feedback as always…thanks again for setting me straight on film titles.

      1. HI BRUCE
        1 I am unfortunately a pedant for detail where movies are concerned and I must therefore apologise for saying on the Russell Crowe site that Man of Steel was released in 2015 instead of 2013. Ironically I got spot on the year of the Brando Superman which was released nearly 4 decades ago now. Seriously though it is strange how quickly time can pass. I could have sworn that I saw Man of Steel just about 18 months ago with my grandson whereas it is now coming up to almost 4 years since we watched it.

        2 Sorry if I misled you but I DID like FHTE but was only 12 when I watched it and in those days I was interested in just the heroics of Burt Lancaster and not in the kind of dramatic performance that Donna or even Sinatra gave. I liked her in the other films that I have mentioned as they were not as ‘heavy’ as FHTE and she brought a necessary feminine touch to them which was different from her role in FHTE. However retrospectively I admire her FHTE performance and agree that she certainly deserved this page for her overall contribution to cinema and TV. As always the WW grosses were much appreciated.

        1. Hey Bob. Can’t fix your comment from work but I will say time flies indeed. Thanks for the thoughts on Eternity. Good stuff as always.

  4. Donna was never on the Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the only actors still on the list who worked with her and all but 2 are dead.

    Babes on Broadway (1941) – 245 Mickey Rooney
    Beyond Mombasa (1956) – 35 Christopher Lee
    From Here to Eternity (1953) – 142 Ernest Borgnine, 762 Jack Warden
    Pepe (1960) – 897 Tony Curtis
    Personalities (1942) – 245 Mickey Rooney
    Ransom (1956) – 855 Leslie Nielsen
    Saturday’s Hero (1951) – 571 William Smith
    The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) – 245 Mickey Rooney
    The Far Horizons (1955) – 247 Charlton Heston
    The Human Comedy (1943) – 245 Mickey Rooney, 809 Robert Mitchum
    The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) – 848 Roger Moore

    Donna appeared with 23 Oscar winners in films

    Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) – Lionel Barrymore
    Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case (1943) – Lionel Barrymore
    From Here to Eternity (1953) – Ernest Borgnine, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra
    Green Dolphin Street (1947) – Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin
    Gun Fury (1953) – Lee Marvin
    Hangman’s Knot (1952) – Lee Marvin
    It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – James Stewart, Gloria Grahame, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
    Pepe (1960) – Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Charles Coburn, Shirley Jones
    Scandal Sheet (1952) – Broderick Crawford
    The Bugle Sounds (1942) – Wallace Beery
    The Far Horizons (1955) – Charlton Heston
    The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) – Elizabeth Taylor
    The Man From Down Under (1943) – Charles Laughton
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) – George Sanders
    The Whole Truth (1958) – George Sanders
    They Were Expendable (1945) – John Wayne
    Thousands Cheer (1943) – Mary Astor
    Trouble Along the Way (1953) – John Wayne, Charles Coburn

    None of the big 10 on the current list worked with Donna. They all connect in 2 steps; these are the ones of interest;

    Eric Roberts was in The Immortals (1995) with Tony Curtis who was in Pepe (1960) with Donna

    Eric and Michael Madsen are both in Blood Red (1989) with Aldo Ray who was in Saturday’s Hero (1951) with Donna

    Eric was in The Long Ride Home (2003) with Ernest Borgnine who was in From Here to Eternity (1953) with Donna

    Michael was in Blueberry (2004) and The Life of Judah (2011) with Ernest Borgnine

    Michael was in Now Here (2010) with Mickey Rooney who was in The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) with Donna.

    Danny Trejo was in Bulletproof (1988) with William Smith who is also in Saturday’s Hero (1951)

    Danny was in Chinaman’s Chance: America’s Other Slaves (2008) with Ernest Borgnine

    Samuel L. Jackson was in Star Wars: the Clone Wars (2008) with Christopher Lee who was in Beyond Mombasa (1956) with Donna

    Harvey Keitel was in Buffalo Bill’s and the Indians (1976) with Burt Lancaster who was in From Here to Eternity (1953) with Donna

    Harvey was in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) with Elizabeth Taylor who was in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) with Donna

    Robert De Niro was in Night and the City (1992) with jack Warden who was in From Here to Eternity

    Bob was in The Last Tycoon (1976) with Tony Curtis and Robert Mitchum who was in The Human Comedy (1943) with Donna

    Robert was in New York, New York (1977) with Arthur Tovey who was in The Caddy (1953) with Donna

    Bob was in The King of Comedy (1982) with Jerry Lewis who is also in The Caddy

    Willem Dafoe only links through one person of no consequence

    Malcolm McDowell was in The Player (1992) with Jack Lemmon who was in Pepe (1960) and Steve Allen who was in The Benny Goodman Story (1956) with Donna

    Malcolm was in Happily Ever After (1990) with Zsa Zsa Gabor who also in Pepe

    Malcolm was in The Passage (1979) with Christopher Lee

    Donald Sutherland was in JFK (1991) with Jack Lemmon

    Don was in The Dirty Dozen (1967) with Lee Marvin who is in Gun Fury (1953) with Donna

    Don was in Promise Her Anything (1966) with Keenan Wynn who was in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) with Donna

    Don was in Johnny Got His Gun (1971) with Marsha Hunt who was in Thousands Cheer (1943) with Donna

    Don was in Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Bear Island (1979) with Christopher Lee

    Don was in The Bedford Incident (1965) and Bear Island (1979) with Richard Widmark who is in Backlash (1956) with Donna

    Michael was in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) with Shirley Jones who was in Pepe (1960)

    Mike was in The Swarm (1978) with Cameron Mitchell who was in They Were Expendable (1945) with Donna

    Mike was in How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957) with Charles Coburn who was in Pepe (1960)

    Mike was in Pulp (1972) with Mickey Rooney

    Mike was in Bullseye! (1990) with Roger Moore who was in The Last Time I Saw Paris

    Mike was in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) with Lloyd Nolan who was in Apache Trail (1942) with Donna

    1. Hey Dan
      1. So Roger Moore and William Smith are the last two standing?
      2. It actually seems strange that Moore is still in the Top 1000….his career movie total is pretty small…especially compared to many others…who are not in the Top 1000.
      3. 23 Oscar winners in only 39 movies is a pretty good ratio.
      4. Looks like Donald and Sir Michael have the most 2 step people.
      5. Poor Willem …not many connections to Donna Reed…..but his score got better with the release of the Great Wall…..which I did not realize he was in…until reading a review tonight.
      Good stuff as always…your efforts are greatly appreciated.

      1. Roger is still on the Oracle of Bacon top 1000 though he is slipping, currently he’s #848. In 2000, the first list he was #208, in 2005 he was #451 and in 2014 he was #640. Well Roger directly acted with one of the top 10 that being Michael Caine in Bullseye! (1980). Kinda destroys the fun on that one.

        Roger connects to everyone else in the current to 10 in 2 steps. He connects to all of them with a lot of never weres or unknowns also, here are a few notable connections for the other 9. This may explain while he is still on though I think he’ll be gone the next time they do a list, probably in 2018.

        Roger Moore was in Boat Trip (2002) with Viveca A. Fox who is in Golden Shoes (2015) with Eric Roberts

        Roger was in The Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) with Robert Loggia who was in The Red Maple Leaf (2016) with Eric and Michael Madsen in No Deposit (2015) and with Bill Nighy who was in Astro Boy (2009) with Samuel L. Jackson

        Roger was in Gli esecutori aka Street People (1976) with Stacy Keach who is in the Portal (2010) with Michael Madsen and who also worked with Samuel L. Jackson in Cell (2016)

        Roger was in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) with Michael Clarke Duncan who was in Sin City (2005) with Michael Madsen and with Neil Patrick Harris who was in A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) with Danny Trejo and Christina Applegate who was in The Book of Life (2014) with Danny and Sean Hayes who was in Soul Men (2008) with Samuel L. Jackson

        Roger was in The Cannonball Run (1981) with Burt Reynolds who was in Not Another Not Another Movie (2011) with Mike

        Roger was in The Quest (1996) with Jean-Claude Van Damme who is Inferno (1999) with Danny Trejo

        Roger is in Ffolkes (1980) with Michael Parks who is in Grindhouse (2007) with Danny

        Roger was in Spice World (1997) with Alan Cumming who is in Spy Kids (2001) with Danny and Meat Loaf who was in Chasing Ghosts (2005) with Danny

        Roger was in The Saint (1997) with Val Kilmer who was in The Salton Sea (2002) with Danny

        Roger was in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) with Marc Lawrence who was in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) with Danny

        Roger was in Bullseye! (1980) with Michael Caine who was in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) with Samuel L. Jackson and in Youth (2015) with Harvey Keitel

        Roger was in The Cannonball Run (1981) with Valerie Perrine who was in The Border (1982) with Harvey Keitel

        Roger was in Escape to Athena (1979) with Claudia Cardinale who was in La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990) with Harvey

        Roger was in The Cannonball Run (1981) with Farrah Fawcett who was in Saturn 3 (1980) with Harvey

        Roger was in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) with Bette Midler who was in Get Shorty (1995) with Harvey

        Roger was in Boat Trip (2002) with Cuba Gooding Jr. who was in Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009) with Harvey

        Roger was in Escape to Athena (1979) with Elliott Gould who was in City of Industry (1997) with Harvey

        Roger was in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) with Herve Villechaize who was in The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971) with Robert De Niro

        Roger was in That Lucky Touch (1975) with Shelley Winters who was in Bloody Mama (1970) with Bob

        Roger was in The Saint (1997) with Val Kilmer who was in Heat (1995) with Bob

        Roger was in the infamous by now Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) with Nick Nolte who was in Paris, je t’aime (2006) with Willem Dafoe

        Roger was in Spice World (1997) with Alan Cumming who is also in Ripley Under Ground (2005) with Willem

        Roger was in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) with Robert Loggia who was in Triumph of the Spirit (1989) with Willem

        Roger was in Spice World (1997) with Bob Hoskins who was in Go Go Tales (2007) with Willem

        Roger was in the ever popular Cats & Dogs etc with J.K. Simmons who was in all 3 Tobey Maguire Spider-Man epics with Willem Dafoe

        Roger was in The Cannonball Run (1981) with Dom Deluise who was in Happily Ever After (1990) with Malcolm McDowell

        Roger was in The Naked Face (1984) with Anne Archer who was in Cut Off (2006) with Malcolm.

        Roger was in Cats & Dogs etc with Michael Clarke Duncan who was in Delgo (2008) with Malcolm

        Roger was in Live and Let Die (1973) with Bernard Lee (M in the Bond films back then) who was in The Raging Moon (1971) with Malcolm

        Roger was in Escape to Athena (1979) with Telly Savalas who was in Kelly’s Heroes (1970) with Donald Sutherland

        Roger was in Shout at the Devil (1975) with Ian Holm who was in Lord of War (2005) with Don

        Roger was in Sport of Heart (2005) with Helen Mirren who was in Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) with Don

        Roger was in that Cats and Dogs epic again with Wallace Shawn who was in Heaven Help Us (1985) with Don

  5. Ouch! No Gold medal this time 🙂
    Only 9 Donna Reed movies watched! From here to Eternity is my favorite, apart from loving the film, I really like her performance here. My second fave must come as a surprise, as it is….that holiday classic about Angels earning their wings by helping Hollywood stars trying to make a good movie yet failing to bring in the money their investors expected. I agree with John that Dorian Gray is one of the best Horrors of the 40’s, with Hurd Hatfield and Lansbury outstanding…hardly remember Miss Reed in that one. I really like Eyes in the Night, an early effort by the director of Eternity, and all the movies off the Thin Man series. Such would end my little resumè on one of my mother’s favorite actresses, if it wasn’t for Dallas…I remember her first appearance as Miss Elli,in the first part of a new series, standing at the bed of another cliffhanger victim (was it Bobby before the revitalizing shower scene?)…The final scene of the earlier series had shown Bel Geddes in the same hospital room, along with SuEllen and other Southfork stalwards. I think Miss Reed looked so out of place there, it was only the fact that SuEllen has had a beauty makeover including a new haircut while standing around that bed that drew my focus away from her for a moment (love 80’s soaps for stories like that!). Not to blame Donna Reed for that one- but I never got used to this switching of actors or actresses in long running TV shows.
    I think John has made an astute comment in comparing Donna Reed to Dorothy Malone- both successfully used their movie stardom to start a much healthier career on Television. If you look at her movies- not one of those I have seen was a “Donna Reed film”. Anyway, an enchanting, beautiful actress with a few classics in her catalogue! Thanks for putting up this page, I think actors like Reed, Malone, Audrey Totter…were as important to classic Hollywood as the superstars were.

    1. Hey Lupino
      Actually surprised with 9 movies watched that you made the medal platform….Tally counts:
      Flora….19 Donna Reed Movies watched
      Bern1960…..17 Donna Reed Movies watched
      Lupino……9 Donna Reed Movies watched
      Steve…..6 Donna Reed Movies watched
      Cogerson…5 Donna Reed Movies watched
      Chris…..2 Donna Reed Movies watched

      I imagine your top two Reed movies are almost everybody’s Top 2. I have not seen her Dorian Gray….but I want to….as for Eyes in the Night…the combo of Zinneman and Reed makes that one worth tracking down.

      I watched Dallas for awhile growing up….but I think by the time Reed showed up…I was no longer a regular viewer. The more I research the more I realize these classic stars were showing up on shows I watched on a regular basis…like Dallas, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat….at the time I was clueless about who they were…now they would get all of my attention.

      I agree John was spot on about Malone and Reed. As are you about there being no “Donna Reed” movies that required her to carry a movie on her own. Good feedback as always.

      1. As my Love for classic american movies started when I was 16, I already was aware of yesterday’s stars making their money on TV guest appearances. I think that was the one reason why I watched Falcon Crest for all the seasons it aired, despite stupid storylines…though none as dumb as Dallas and TV’s most famous shower scene 🙂
        FC had Jane Wyman as the main protagonist and Lana Turner, Kim Novak, Gina Lollobrigida, Rod Taylor, Jane Greer, Eddie Albert, Mel Ferrer, Cliff Robertson, Celeste Holm, Leslie Caron, Robert Stack, Ursula Andress and on and on in guest spots. My apologies to Miss Reed for highjacking her page 😉

        1. Hey Lupino….very cool background information on how you became such a knowledgable classic movie person. Sounds like you watched more American television than I did…lol. Sounds like FC has some serious movie fans doing the hiring….good stuff. I am sure Ms. Reed forgives you. 🙂

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