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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jock Og" data-source="post: 396398" data-attributes="member: 17">One of my first posts on this area of the web 23.5 years ago (then Ultimate Dallas) was how I felt so sorry for Donna Reed and how she wasn't accepted, to a large degree.  There was one thing for sure she wasn't going to base her Ellie on BBG's original, not that I thought she should have done or even could have done.It's not as if the TPTB didn't know what they could have been setting themselves up for, when they hired another actress.  Donna Reed was in a 'Catch 22' scenario i.e. she couldn't do right for doing wrong.  Had Larry Hagman's mother Mary Martin been cast as the matriarch I feel she would have been in the same sticky wicket (even with her son's prominence), as Donna.  Sadly the Big C was the end, 8 months after 'Swan Song'.  I'm glad the lawsuit was successful.  Eternal rest to Donna Reed!<img src="https://vintageshowbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Donna_Reed_Death_3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Donna Reed's last publicity photo, with Howard Keel at her side (DALLAS 1985).A furniture company's delivery van is at Southfork. Clayton has just parked his blue Rolls Royce Silver Spirit behind J.R.'s olive green Mercedes SEL. Ellie played by Donna Reed arrives to tell the furniture company's employee where to put her purchases, (a scene from season 7; DVD-8, 1984 - '85):Ellie signs the delivery docket: "Thank you!"Ellie to Clayton: "For us, it's a new set of bedroom furniture. Donna helped me choose it yesterday and I got them to deliver it today."Clayton seems surprised: "Bedroom furniture."Ellie: "I thought it was time for a change."Ellie and Clayton kiss.The Ewing matriarch then gives her orders to the delivery man: "Follow me and I'll show you where to put everything."J.R. c/w trademark Stetson and briefcase in hand, appears on the patio: "Hey mama what's going on?"Ellie smiling: "A new set of bedroom furniture for Clayton and me."She walks off to get everything arranged.J.R. squares up to Clayton: "Oh really! How about that."J.R.: "Well I have to hand it to you. You're not here a week and you're changing things around already."Clayton: "For your information it was mother's decision and since it's our bedroom and not yours, it is really none of your business. Is it?"J.R. chuckles and in his best English accent, replies to his stepfather: "I suppose not!"He goes to get into his Merc'. However he notices Clayton has him blocked in.J.R. politely asks Clayton: "Could you arrange to have that blue thing moved out of the way, so I can get my car outta here?"Clayton throws his Rolls Royce keys at him and replies: "Be my guest!"J.R. is not amused.</blockquote>

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