Dallas Adult Entertainment: Philip French’s screen legends
Reed made some decent pictures after that, all genre movies, before moving on to become the ideal Eisenhower-era wife in a long-running TV sitcom, The Donna Reed Show, and briefly taking over the role of Miss Ellie from Barbara Bel Geddes in Dallas. But by then she’d made her third major movie, Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953). In a 1950s New Yorker cartoon in the 1950s, a laidback Hollywood producer addresses a pair of louche screenwriters thus: “The way I see it, he’s a regular guy and she’s the pretty kid next door. As the movie starts he’s got a monkey on his back and she’s just out on parole.” This just about sums up her role as the classy prostitute in love with Montgomery Clift’s doomed soldier in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor, who wants to get back to her small home town in Iowa. It brought her an Oscar as best supporting actress.
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