Donna Reed, who starred as Mary Hatch Bailey in 'It's a Wonderful Life,' died in 1986 at age 64 from cancer. Her daughter Mary Owen is helping to keep the star's legacy alive.
Mary Owen, the daughter of Hollywood star Donna Reed, reflects on the legacy of the iconic holiday classic film and how the actress stayed connected to our American troops during WWII.It was 2003 when the daughter of Donna Reed and Tony Owen discovered several shoe boxes filled with over 350. They had been carefully saved by the matriarch in a trunk stored in the garage of her Beverly Hills, California, home for more than 40 years.
Clockwise from top: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes in "It’s a Wonderful Life."the holiday classic "I still have my mother’s ration cards," Owen chuckled."She went on bond drives. Whenever she visited her parents in Iowa, she sold bonds. She danced with the guys at the Hollywood Canteen and so on. Several of her movies … were shown at base camps. So she started getting these letters right around 1940, 1941, but really closer to the end of the war during the last two to three years. And she responded to them."far from home.
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