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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 398765" data-attributes="member: 57984">Donna Reed was, let's face it, a more superficial actress. Just look at her "Oscar winning" role in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Sinatra's Academy Award-winning performance isn't that great either). It's nothing to write home about. It's just a Golden Age actress playing a refined hooker lady, and what's wrong with that?But can you imagine Reed smashing plates in the Southfork kitchen on her knees? (Not that I'm really all that fond of the scene).Sure, Reed had (as Paulsen pointed out) more of the "look" of a Texas oil baron's wife, right down to the bouffant and highfalutin' wardrobe. But she wasn't Miss Ellie.As has been said before, Donna Reed could never be as warm -- or as cold -- as Barbara Bel Geddes.</blockquote>