Donna Reed

Biography: More than ten years after her death, American actor Donna Reed remains a cultural icon, loved and scorned. She personified the ideal homemaker on television. In movies she was the archetypal sweetheart and wife. The only time she played a fallen woman, in From Here to Eternity, she won an Academy Award. Her work has lived on in saturation reruns of The Donna Reed Show and the classic It's a Wonderful Life.