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It was all a dreadful mistake, Donna Reed thought, in panic. When a woman has everything she wants — a happy home, a husband to be proud of, four wonderful children — she'd be a fool to take any risks!
The older children didn't worry her so much . . . Tim was nine, young Tony eleven, Penny twelve, so they were in school a good part of the day.
But Mary . . . Mary was only one year old. . . .
It had seemed such a lark, making a TV pilot for her husband Tony. But she never really expected the series would be sold! Now that it was, the whole Owen family schedule would be turned upside-down . . . there might be psychological reactions she and Tony could neither foresee nor forestall. . . .
She was most frightened about Mary, she confesses today. "What would my being away do to her? I'd been with her constantly — had no regular nurse. I had devoted most of my time to her, and I was scared that such a drastic change in her routine might leave serious effects ... I don't think I ever prayed so hard that everything would turn out all right!"
From the start, there was no doubt that "The Donna Reed Show" itself — now in its fifth season on ABC-TV — was a success. But the work schedule was every bit as much of a problem as she'd imagined . . . and the show's effect on her children greater than she could ever have dreamed.
At first, she wouldn't let Mary see it. She simply didn't wan! her
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When it happened, Penny was old enough lo understand, but how could Donna explain it to little Mary?