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The Donna Reed Show Collection http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8jw8fhk No online items Inventory of the The Donna Reed Show Collection Laine Thielstrom William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 Los Angeles, CA 90045-8200 Phone: (310) 338-5710 Fax: (310) 338-5895 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.lmu.edu/Collections/specialcollections.htm © 2012 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Inventory of the The Donna Reed 033 1 Show Collection Inventory of the The Donna Reed Show Collection Collection number: 033 William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California Processed by: Laine Thielstrom Date Completed: December 2012 Encoded by: Laine Thielstrom © 2012 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: The Donna Reed Show collection Dates: 1958-1966 Bulk Dates: 1958-1965 Collection number: 033 Creator: Todon of California Creator: Briskin Productions Collection Size: 14 linear feet (27 archives boxes) Repository: Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 Abstract: The collection includes production documents (correspondence, schedules, contracts, budgets, scripts, etc.) from The Donna Reed Show television series. Physical location: Loyola Marymount University. William H. Hannon Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University. Publication Rights Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, The Donna Reed Show collection, 033, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University. Acquisition Information Accession # 1998.7. Biography / Administrative History Todon of California, Inc. and Briskin Productions, Inc. produced The Donna Reed Show in conjunction with Screen Gems, Inc. The name is an amalgamation of the names of Donna Reed and her husband Tony Owen. Owen was the show's producer, and Reed was the star. The show was broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network from 1958 to 1966. It ran for eight seasons. Campbell Soup Company was the main sponsor. Other sponsors included Johnson & Johnson and the Singer Inventory of the The Donna Reed 033 2 Show Collection Company. The main cast included Reed as housewife Donna Stone, Carl Betz as her husband Dr. Alex Stone, Paul Petersen as son Jeff Stone, and Shelley Fabares as teenage daughter Mary Stone. After Fabares' character went off to college after the fourth season (though with some later guest reappearances), the Stone family adopted a little girl name Trisha (played by Paul Petersen's real-life sister, Patty Petersen.) Other reoccurring roles included Bob Crane and Ann McCrea as neighbors Dr Dave and Midge Kelsey, Jimmy Hawkins as Scotty, and Darryl Richard as Smitty. Notable guest stars included Jack Albertson, John Astin, Binnie Barnes, Dabney Coleman, Hans Conreid, Richard Conte, Johnny Crawford, Kim Darby, James Darren, Don Drysdale, Jamie Farr, Gale Gordon, Leslie Gore, Harold Gould, Sam Jaffe, Buster Keaton, DeForest Kelley, Harvey Korman, Swoosie Kurtz, Lassie, Cloris Leachman, Gary Lockwood, Willie Mays, Jay North, Ann Rutherford, George Sidney, Warren Stevens, Marlo Thomas, Miyoshi Umeki, Esther Williams, Paul Winchell, and William Windom. William Roberts was the show's creator and main writer. John Whedon, Nate Monaster, Paul West, Barbara Hammer Avedon, and Tom August (Alfred Lewis Levitt) also wrote many of the shows. Other writers included Helen August (Helen Levitt), Henry Sharp, Phil Sharp, Sam Locke, Joel Rapp, Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott, Clifford Goldsmith, Jerry Davis, Sumner Long and Phil Davis. Directors included Oscar Rudolph, Andrew McCullough, Jeffrey Hayden, Robert Ellis Miller, Gene Nelson, Lawrence Dobkin, Norman Tokar, Frederick De Cordova, Jackie Cooper and Ida Lupino. Donna Reed (born in 1921 in Denison, Iowa) did significant work in film before moving into television. Her best known films are Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (with James Stewart) and From Here to Eternity (with Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra) for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Other film credits include Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), They Were Expendable (1945), Scandal Sheet (1952), The Benny Goodman Story (1956), and Backlash (1956). Other television work included The Love Boat (1984) and Dallas (1984-1985). Donna Reed died in 1986. Scope and Content of Collection The Donna Reed Show Collection includes broadcast ratings, production files (correspondence, schedules, contracts, etc.), scripts, and cost reports for episodes of The Donna Reed Show, 1958-1966. Arrangement The Donna Reed Show Collection consists of four series, ordered as when originally processed. Series 1: Nielsen Ratings. Series 2: Production Files. Series 3: Scripts. Series 4: Cost Reports. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Donna Reed show (Television program) Reed, Donna, 1921-1986 Betz, Carl, 1920-1978 Fabares, Shelley Petersen, Paul, 1945- Crane, Bob, 1929-1978 Roberts, William S., 1913-1997 American Broadcasting Company Screen Gems Campbell Soup Company Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. Television programs--Production and direction. Series 1 Nielsen ratings 1959-1963 Physical Description: .5 linear feet. Series Scope and Content Summary Series 1 contains weekly reports of Nielsen Ratings and related correspondence. In addition, there are a few unrelated items – schedules, a short story by Paul West and a Beverly Hills Clinic diet plan. Box:Folder 1:1 Donna Reed Show: Nielsen Reports 1962-1963 Inventory of the The Donna Reed 033 3 Show Collection Series 1Nielsen ratings 1959-1963 Box:Folder 1:2 Nielsen Report 1959-1962 Box:Folder 1:3 Nielsen Reports 1961-1962 Box:Folder 1:4 Nielsen Reports 1961-1962 Box:Folder 1:5 Nielsen Reports 1959-1961 Series 2 Production files 1958-1966 1958-1965 Series Scope and Content Summary Series 2 contains production documents relating to each episode. This includes correspondence, memorandums, credits, Assistant Director's Daily Reports, contractual agreements, cast and crew contact lists, cast work day tallies, music licenses, music cue sheets, credit billing breakdowns, Writer's Guild registrations, script approvals, budgets, payment authorizations, script revisions, and a few complete scripts. Material which might be of particular historical interest is correspondence objecting to episode content (in various folders) from ABC, and Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (advertising agency representing show sponsor); and correspondence between Tony Owen and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Box 9, Folder 18). Some of the documents are on fragile paper. Some pages are faded. There is some acidic damage. Three episodes, "Guest in the House," "Nothing But the Truth," and "Boys and Girls" were broadcast, but do not have files in this series. Box:Folder 1:6 The Busy People. No. 4976 1960-1961 Box:Folder 1:7 Advice to Young Lovers. No. 4576 1959 Box:Folder 1:8 Teenage Idol. (April Fool.) No. 4518 1958-1959 Box:Folder 1:9 The Baby Contest. No. 4416 1958 Box:Folder 1:10 The Flowered Print Dress. (The Yellow Dress.) No. 4388 1958-1959 Box:Folder 1:11 Dough-Re-Mi. (Lipscott and Fisher) No. 4378 1958 Box:Folder 1:12 The Beaded Bag. No. 4432 1958 Box:Folder 1:13 Boys Will Be Boys. (One Darn Thing After Another.) No. 4527 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:1 The Busybody. (Lenard and Carneol) No. 4331 1958 Box:Folder 2:2 Change Partners and Dance. No. 4272 1958 Box:Folder 2:3 Do You Trust Your Child? No. 4568 1959 Box:Folder 2:4 Donna Plays Cupid. No. 4422 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:5 The Football Uniform. (Chantler and Cowley) No. 4300 1958 Box:Folder 2:6 The Foundling. (John Whedon) No. 4333 1958 Box:Folder 2:7 The Grateful Patient. No. 4491 1958 Box:Folder 2:8 Have Fun. No. 4522 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:9 The Hero. No. 4485 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:10 The Hike. (Sommers and Nelson) No. 4304 1958 Box:Folder 2:11 The Ideal Wife. (The Model Wife.) No. 4557 1959 Box:Folder 2:12 It's the Principle of the Thing. No. 4478 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:13 Jeff's Double Life. No. 4415 1958 Box:Folder 2:14 Jeff vs. Mary. No. 4436 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:15 Love Thy Neighbor. No. 4514 1958-1959 Box:Folder 2:16 Miss Lovelace Comes to Tea. No. 4562 1959 Box:Folder 2:17 The Male Ego. (Nate Monaster) No. 4382 1958 Box:Folder 2:18 Mary's Double Date. No. 4411 1958 Box:Folder 2:19 Mary's Campaign. No. 4561 1959 Box:Folder 2:20 Operation Deadbeat. No. 4575 1959 Box:Folder 2:21 Parting of the Ways. No. 4572 1959 Box:Folder 2:22 Pardon My Gloves. (Lipscott and Fisher) No. 4332 1958 Box:Folder 3:1 The Report Card. No. 4504 1958-1959 Box:Folder 3:2 That's Show Business. No. 4566 1959 Box:Folder 3:3 Sleep No More, My Lady. No. 4520 1958-1959 Box:Folder 3:4 The Testimonial. No. 4574 1959 Box:Folder 3:5 Three Part Mother. No. 4303 1958 Box:Folder 3:6 Tomorrow Comes Too Soon.
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