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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rove" data-source="post: 54021" data-attributes="member: 100">Through no fault of her own poor Donna Reed was dropped into a role that she should never had accepted. Barbara Bel Geddes and Donna were like chalk and cheese..and the above photos prove it. Donna could have worked if she was cast as Miss Ellie from the outset. I actually liked her demeanor. If Dallas had begun with the Southworth family being from wealth it would have been an interesting backstory where Miss Ellie (Princess of Braddock) fell for Jock - a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.I'm really torn over the whole Barbara Bel Geddes and Donna Reed debacle. I often wonder how Donna Reed and Jim Davis would have played against each other. Would they have had good chemistry? I personally believe they would have. Jock - in his twilight years - was still the tough as nails cowboy while Miss Ellie (Donna Reed) displays class and elegance, again as shown in the above images.</blockquote>