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In Search of Donna Reed

Author : Jay Fultz

Publisher :

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 27,36 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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This first biography of Donna Reed also contains the first extended discussion of her television show. The personal richness that Reed brought to her television role has been filtered out in the caricature perpetuated by pop critics. In the media "Donna Reed" is Donna Stone distorted as a female-manque who wears pearls and high heels around the house. But Donna Reed's long hold on viewers depends on irreducible qualities that have nothing to do with this fixed image, as Fultz suggests. He follows her development from Iowa farm girl to apprentice in Hollywood to mature juggler of the demands of family and career to antiwar activist. Drawing on Reed's letters and on interviews, Fultz looks for what was real in a very private person without discarding what is romantic in any pursuit of a public one. He shows why the rich and principled life of Donna Reed matters in this more cynical time.



Donna Reed

Author : Brenda Scott Royce

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 43,2 MB

Release : 1990-11-26

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0313368767

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Donna Reed has been called everyone's favorite mother and her recognition as such has stood the test of time. But before she became known as the ultimate mom for her role on The Donna Reed Show, Miss Reed was already a veteran film actress with almost forty films to her credit. Among these are her performances in It's a Wonderful Life and From Here to Eternity. Her role in the latter garnered her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. This book is a comprehensive reference to the life and work of Donna Reed for use by researchers as well as fans. Performing arts researcher Brenda Scott Royce has compiled a self-contained reference work to Donna Reed's career and life. A brief biography begins the book, followed by detailed examinations of Miss Reed's work in motion pictures, television, and radio. Also listed are media reviews of her work, a listing of awards and nominations, and a chronology of major events in her life. An annotated bibliography follows these sections, and it lists all articles and other items about Donna Reed that appeared in major magazines, fan magazines, books, and newspapers. The entries in each section are cross-referenced for easy referral by the reader. This bio-bibliography will be an important addition to libraries with a performing arts collection, students of media arts, and Donna Reed fans.



The Donna Reed Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Donna Reed

Author : Emily Smith

Publisher : Tebbo

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 28,21 MB

Release : 2013-02-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781486465125

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Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 January 14, 1986) was an American film and television actress. With appearances in over 40 films, Reed received the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene in the war drama From Here to Eternity. She is also well known for her role as Mary Hatch in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). She worked extensively in television, notably as Donna Stone, an American middle class mother in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958 1966), in which she played a more prominent role than many other television mothers of the era and for which she received the 1963 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star - Female. Later in Reed's career she replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing in 1984 season of the television melodrama, Dallas, and sued the production company for breach of contract when she was abruptly fired upon Bel Geddes' decision to return to the show. This book is your ultimate resource for Donna Reed. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Donna Reed's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Donna Reed, 1953 in film, 1963 in television, Another Mother for Peace, Babes on Broadway, Backlash (1956 film), Barbara Bel Geddes, Beyond Mombasa, Calling Dr. Gillespie, Carl Betz, Dallas (1978 TV series), Deadly Lessons (1983 film), Denison, Iowa, Eyes in the Night, Frank Capra, From Here to Eternity, Gentle Annie (film), Green Dolphin Street, Gun Fury, Iowa, It's a Wonderful Life, Lana Turner, Los Angeles City College, Mary Hatch, Miss Ellie Ewing, Miyoshi Umeki, Paul Petersen, Ransom!, Scandal Sheet (1952 film), See Here, Private Hargrove, Shadow of the Thin Man, Shelley Fabares, The Benny Goodman Story, The Bugle Sounds and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.



LIFE

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Page : 152 pages

File Size : 30,16 MB

Release : 1946-06-10

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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.



The Donna Reed Show

Author : Joanne Morreale

Publisher : Wayne State University Press

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 37,10 MB

Release : 2012-10-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0814338089

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Analyzes The Donna Reed Show, which aired from 1958 to 1966, as a key moment of cultural transition. At a time when television offered limited opportunities for women, Donna Reed was an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress who became both producer (though largely uncredited) and star of her own television show. Distinct from the patriarchal family sitcoms of the era, The Donna Reed Show's storylines focused on the mother instead of the father, and its production brought a cinematic aesthetic to television situation comedy. In The Donna Reed Show, author Joanne Morreale illustrates how the program pushed the boundaries of the domestic sitcom at a time when the genre was evolving and also reflected the subtle shifts and undercurrents of unrest in the larger social and political culture. Morreale begins by locating Donna Reed in relation to her predecessors Gertrude Berg and Lucille Ball, both of whom were strong female presences in front of and behind the camera. She also explores the telefilm aesthetics of The Donna Reed Showand argues that the series is a prime example of the emergent synergy between Hollywood and the television industry in the late fifties. In addition, Morreale argues that the Donna Stone character's femininity acts as a kind of masquerade, as well as provides a proto-feminist model for housewives. She also examines the show's representation of teen culture and its role in launching the singing careers of its two teenaged stars. Finally, Morreale considers the legacy of The Donna Reed Show in the representation of its values in later sitcoms and its dialogue with contemporary television texts. Morreale illustrates the interplay of gender, industry, and culture at work in the history of this classic TV series. Fans of the show, as well as students and teachers of television history, will enjoy this close look at The Donna Reed Show.



Donna Reed 212 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Donna Reed

Author : Gregory Peters

Publisher : Emerge Publishing Group Llc

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 13,27 MB

Release : 2014-07-05

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781488564017

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Takes A Fresh Look At Donna Reed. 'Donna Reed' (January 27, 1921 ndash; January 14, 1986) was an American feature and TV female actor. This book is your ultimate resource for Donna Reed. Here you will find the most up-to-date 212 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Donna Reed's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Gigi Perreau - Affiliations, Ben Gage, Tisha Sterling - Life and career, Gentle Annie (film) - Cast, Hangman's Knot, 1921 in film - Births, The Betty Hutton Show - Reception and cancellation, Norman Taurog - 1950s, Donna Reed - Political views, Hal Smith (actor) - Early life, Beyond Glory - Cast, Jesse White (actor) - Life and career, Timothy Hutton - Career, Barry Nelson - Career, The United States Steel Hour - Television, Donna Reed Foundation, Gale Gordon - Television, Carl Betz - Career, 1963 in television - Events, George Hamilton (actor) - Television work, Kansas City Confidential - Background, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) - Cast, Sacagawea - Film, Beyond Mombasa - Cast, Charles Herbert - Career, Jay North - Adult years, Lesley Gore - 1960s career, Marlo Thomas - Early career, Eyes in the Night - Cast, Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray - Film and television, Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California) - Notable alumni, Hangman's Knot - Plot, Raiders of the Seven Seas - Cast, Shadow of the Thin Man, Calling Dr. Gillespie, The Wide Country - Synopsis, Shelley Fabares - Early life and career, Roberta Sherwood - Later career, Donna Reed Foundation - Death, Stephen Talbot - Early life and career, Stuart Erwin, Kim Darby - Television roles, Trouble Along the Way, Charles Lane (actor) - 1960s, and much more...



Searching for John Ford

Author : Joseph McBride

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 983 pages

File Size : 42,63 MB

Release : 2011-02-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496800567

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John Ford's classic films—such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers—have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past. Joseph McBride's Searching for John Ford, described as definitive by both the New York Times and the Irish Times, surpasses all other biographies of the filmmaker in its depth, originality, and insight. Encompassing and illuminating Ford's myriad complexities and contradictions, McBride traces the trajectory of Ford's life from his beginnings as “Bull” Feeney, the nearsighted, football-playing son of Irish immigrants in Portland, Maine, to his recognition, after a long, controversial, and much-honored career, as America's national mythmaker. Blending lively and penetrating analyses of Ford's films with an impeccably documented narrative of the historical and psychological contexts in which those films were created, McBride has at long last given John Ford the biography his stature demands.



It's a Wonderful Life

Author : Michael Newton

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 34,74 MB

Release : 2023-09-07

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1839023503

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Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradictions of ordinary life, while also enacting for us the quintessence of the classic Hollywood aesthetic. Nostalgia, humour, and a tough resilience weave themselves through this movie, intertwining it with the fraught cultural moment of the end of World War II that saw its birth. It offers a still compelling merging of fantasy and realism that was utterly unique when it was first released, and has rarely been matched since. Michael Newton's study of the film investigates the source of its extraordinary power and its long-lasting impact. He begins by introducing the key figures in the movie's production - notably director Frank Capra and star James Stewart - and traces the making of the film, and then provides a brief synopsis of the film, considering its aesthetic processes and procedures, touching on all those things that make it such an astonishing film. Newton's careful analysis explores all those aspects of the film that are fundamental to our understanding of it, particularly the way in which the film brings tragedy and comedy together. Finally, Newton tells the story of the film's reception and afterlife, accounting for its initial relative failure and its subsequent immense popularity.



Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

Author : James Gilbert Ryan

Publisher : M.E. Sharpe

Page : 612 pages

File Size : 40,20 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 076562107X

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Contains entries for individuals, institutions, and events, focusing mostly on the U.S. Entries cover topics in science, history, literature, theater and entertainment, and many other areas.



The Beginning or the End

Author : Greg Mitchell

Publisher : The New Press

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 48,45 MB

Release : 2020-07-07

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1620975742

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The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon. Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the model for a character she was sketching for Atlas Shrugged. Greg Mitchell’s The Beginning or the End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to process the Atomic Age. A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military—for reasons of propaganda, politics, and petty human vanity (this was Hollywood). Mitchell has found his way into the lofty rooms, from Washington to California, where it happened, unearthing hundreds of letters and dozens of scripts that show how wise intentions were compromised in favor of defending the use of the bomb and the imperatives of postwar politics. As in his acclaimed Cold War true-life thriller The Tunnels, he exposes how our implacable American myth-making mechanisms distort our history.