Donna Stratton
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Donna Stratton is a fictional character from Steven Spielberg's film, 1941 (1979). She was portrayed by Nancy Allen.
Donna is a beautiful young woman, secretary and the object of comical romantic lust to General Stilwell's (Robert Stack) aide Loomis Birkhead (Tim Matheson). Donna is not especially fond of him at first, and complicating the matter is that Donna cannot experience or express any romantic or sexually intimate feelings unless she is flying high in an aircraft. She and Loomis have a love/hate relationship.
When Birkhead offers to check on Colonel Maddox, it is mainly a pretense to get Donna to come along by mentioning that Maddox's base may have aircraft. Donna agrees that if he can get her in the plane AND off the ground, she'll consider having a tryst. When Birkhead succeeds in spite of having failed flight school and being intensely focused on keeping the plane on a straight course, Donna lets her hair down both figuratively and physically and comes on to him. Using her red brassiere to keep the controls in place, Donna finally enjoys passionate, long delayed sexual rapture with Birkhead until their plane runs afoul of the sloppy, slovenly, drunken man child pilot Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi). Mistaking them for Japanese invaders, Wild Bill chases after them, causing a hell of a lot of property damage in the process and scaring poor Donna out of her mind.
After taking some heavy damage, Birkhead manages to crash land the plane in an oil lake dinosaur theme park. Surveying the damage, Birkhead assesses that he and Donna are in "big trouble", but then promptly forgets it when Donna comes on to him again.
The end sees Donna, no longer needing to be in a high flying aircraft to become aroused, all over Birkhead, who actually has to tell her to behave herself when they are to confront General Stilwell for their misadventure.
