Donna Reed

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Larry Simms, Jimmy Hawkins, Donna Reed, Karolyn Grimes, and James Stewart, 1946

Reed was elected beauty queen of her high school and Campus Queen of her college. The latter honor resulted in her photo making the L.A. papers, and as a result she was invited to take a screen test with MGM, which signed her in 1941. She played supporting roles in a number of minor films (at first being billed as "Donna Adams"), then in the mid '40s she began getting leads; with rare exception... Read More