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Reed's character, Donna Stone, is a loving mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings and a sense of humor. 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 ...
Reed described her show as "[...] a realistic picture of small-town life with an often humorous twist. Our plots revolve around the most important thing in America—a loving family." In the show, Reed's character, Donna Stone, is a loving mother and wife, but also a strong, smart woman with feelings and a sense of humor. [23]
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.
Janet Landgard, who starred in 1968’s “The Swimmer” alongside Burt Lancaster and played Paul Petersen’s love interest for three seasons on “The Donna Reed Show,” has died. She was 75.
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.
Petersen with Sally Field in The Flying Nun, 1968. Petersen began his show business career at age10 as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club. [3] He appeared in the 1958 movie Houseboat with Sophia Loren and Cary Grant, but achieved stardom playing teenager Jeff Stone from 1958 to 1966 on the ABC family television sitcom The Donna Reed Show.
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.