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My rewatch of Season 8 (DVD) had now reached the dreaded arrival of Donna Reed as Miss Ellie, and it pretty much confirms my original impression.
Her greatest hurdle, of course, is simply the fact that she's not Barbara Bel Geddes, but I don't think anyone could have overcome that.
In my view, her acting is competent, she seems to strike the right balance of steel and velvet, she even speaks in the same slow, measured way.
The one glaring mistake, be it her choice or not, is that she's just too glamorous.
If they'd just taken the perm out of her hair and put her in the simple frocks that Miss Ellie had favoured hitherto, would that have made the transition more palatable, or is there just something innate about her that makes her seem too aristocratic for the role?
Her greatest hurdle, of course, is simply the fact that she's not Barbara Bel Geddes, but I don't think anyone could have overcome that.
In my view, her acting is competent, she seems to strike the right balance of steel and velvet, she even speaks in the same slow, measured way.
The one glaring mistake, be it her choice or not, is that she's just too glamorous.
If they'd just taken the perm out of her hair and put her in the simple frocks that Miss Ellie had favoured hitherto, would that have made the transition more palatable, or is there just something innate about her that makes her seem too aristocratic for the role?