The Donna Reed Show: The House on the Hill
09:30 am - 10:00 am, Tuesday, December 9 on WNYW Catchy Comedy (5.5)
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The House on the Hill
Season 5, Episode 24
Donna visits a recluse who lives in a supposedly haunted house. Mrs. Allison: Kathryn Givney. Eric: Joseph Dowling. Carl Betz.
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1963
English
Comedy
Family
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Donna Reed
(Actor)
.. Donna Stone
Carl Betz
(Actor)
.. Dr. Alex Stone
Paul Petersen
(Actor)
.. Jeff Stone
Kathryn Givney
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Allison
Joseph Dowling
(Actor)
.. Eric
Ann Mccrea
(Actor)
.. Midge Kelsey
Janet Landgard
(Actor)
.. Karen Holmby
Darryl Richard
(Actor)
.. Smitty
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Did You Know..
Donna Reed
(Actor)
.. Donna Stone
Born:
January 27, 1921
Died: January 14, 1986
Birthplace: Dennison, Iowa, United States
Died: January 14, 1986
Birthplace: Dennison, Iowa, United States
Trivia:
Reed was elected beauty queen of her high school and Campus Queen of her college. The latter honor resulted in her photo making the L.A. papers, and as a result she was invited to take a screen test with MGM, which signed her in 1941. She played supporting roles in a number of minor films (at first being billed as "Donna Adams"), then in the mid '40s she began getting leads; with rare exceptions, she portrayed sincere, wholesome types and loving wives and girlfriends. She went against type playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Rarely getting rewarding roles, she retired from the screen in 1958 to star in the TV series "The Donna Reed Show," which was a great success and remained on the air through 1966. After 1960 she appeared in only one more film. In the mid '80s she emerged from retirement to star in "Dallas;" Barbara Bel Geddes returned to the show in 1985, and Reed won a $1 million settlement for a breach of contract suit against the show's producers. She died of cancer several months later.
Carl Betz
(Actor)
.. Dr. Alex Stone
Paul Petersen
(Actor)
.. Jeff Stone
Born:
September 23, 1945
Trivia:
American actor Paul Petersen was a child actor who appeared on television and in a couple of feature films during the '50s; he is best remembered for playing teenager Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show where he literally grew up. While there, Petersen had a brief side-career as a popular singer, making his recording debut in early 1962 with the novelty song "She Can't Find Her Keys," which originally aired as a dream sequence on the show. Other hits followed, including his Top Ten single "My Dad," which he also sang on the television show. Eventually Petersen left the show and began playing leads in a few '60s feature films. Since then, Petersen has become a writer of spy novels and has made only infrequent forays into film.
Kathryn Givney
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Allison
Born:
January 01, 1896
Died: March 16, 1978
Died: March 16, 1978
Trivia:
Broadway actress Kathryn Givney first came to Hollywood in 1930 to repeat her stage role as "golf widow" Mrs. Bascomb in the film version of the hit musical Follow Through. She then returned to the stage, reemerging before the cameras as a character actress in 1948. Usually cast as imperious dowagers, she is best remembered for such characterizations as the haughty Mrs. Rhinelander in My Friend Irma and Salvation Army general Matilda B. Cartwright in Guys and Dolls. Kathryn Givney was also a familiar presence on television; one of her best TV assignments was as a reclusive old woman who "kidnaps" housewife Donna Stone on a mid-'60s installment of The Donna Reed Show.
Joseph Dowling
(Actor)
.. Eric
Ann Mccrea
(Actor)
.. Midge Kelsey
Born:
February 25, 1931
Janet Landgard
(Actor)
.. Karen Holmby
Born:
December 02, 1947
Darryl Richard
(Actor)
.. Smitty
