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In May 2010, Turner Classic Movies honored Reed as their star of the month [44] which saw Mary Owen pay a special tribute to her mother. [45] In a 2011 article, actress Shelley Fabares (who played Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show) wrote, [Donna Reed] definitely became my second mother. She was a role model and remains so to this day.
Donna Reed has a daughter named Mary—but she wasn't named after her character Mary Bailey. Reed's daughter Mary Owen told Mental Floss , "I was named after my great grandmother, Mary Mullenger ...
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (/ ˌ f æ b ə ˈ r eɪ /; born January 19, 1944) is a retired American actress and singer.She is known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach (1989–1997), the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations.
According to many of Reed's friends and family, Reed shared many similarities to the character that she portrayed on screen, implying that the fictional Donna Stone was a near-identical copy of Reed herself. [citation needed] In a 2008 interview, Paul Petersen (Jeff Stone) stated: [The Donna Reed Show] depicts a better time and place. It has a ...
Two years ago, after meeting Grimes at the festival, Ley had the film’s initials “IWAL,” tattooed on a wrist above “ZuZu” and a bell, the signature Grimes uses to sign memorabilia.
Petersen and Donna Reed in 1963. Patti Petersen Mirkovich (born December 2, 1954) is a retired American child actress. [1] Petersen's brother costarred on ABC's The Donna Reed Show. [2] She was written into the cast as Trisha, an adopted child after Shelley Fabares left the series. [3] She stayed with the show until it ended in 1966.
The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. 275 half-hour episodes were made, all in black-and-white.
Carl Lawrence Betz [1] (March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera Love of Life; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show.