Elinor Donahue
Mary Eleanor Donahue (born April 19, 1937), credited as Elinor Donahue, is an American actress, best remembered today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Robert Young and Jane Wyatt, on the 1950s American sitcom Father Knows Best. Donahue achieved stardom for her role as the elder daughter, Betty, on the television family series Father Knows Best. Her co-stars were Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray as her younger brother, James "Bud" Anderson, Jr., and Lauren Chapin as her younger sister, Kathy. Donahue was a musical judge in ABC's Jukebox Jury (1953–54). While in the first season of Father Knows Best she also appeared on The Ray Bolger Show, starring Ray Bolger as a song-and-dance man. Thereafter, she was cast with James Best, Ann Doran, and J. Carrol Naish in the 1956 episode "The White Carnation" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. She guest starred on an episode of U.S. Marshal. She also appeared as a new bride in the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show episode titled "The Newlyweds" that aired April 2, 1956. She played Georgiana Balanger in the episode "Dennis and the Wedding" (1960) on Dennis the Menace.[5] Donahue was also cast, in 1960, with Marion Ross in an episode ("Duet") of The Brothers Brannagan. She played Miriam Welby on ABC's The Odd Couple, Jane Mulligan on Mulligan's Stew, and Nurse Hunnicut on Days of Our Lives. She was featured in 12 episodes of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show as pharmacist Ellie Walker, even getting a mention in the opening credits. The character was intended to be a love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, but after one season (1960–1961), Donahue decided to ask for a release from her three-year contract.[6] In 1963, Donahue was cast in an episode of NBC's short-lived modern Western series, Redigo, with Richard Egan as the rancher Jim Redigo; then in 1964, she appeared as Melanie in "The Secret in the Stone" in the NBC medical drama dealing with psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy. Additionally, on February 9, 1963, she played Letty May in the episode "The Burning Tree" on Have Gun Will Travel. In the 1964–65 season, Donahue costarred as Joan Randall, the daughter of Walter Burnley, played by John McGiver, on the CBS sitcom, Many Happy Returns about the complaint department of a fictitious Los Angeles department store. She guest-appeared on Star Trek in the second-season episode "Metamorphosis" (1967) as commissioner Nancy Hedford. In 1966, she guest starred on the TV series A Man Called Shenandoah, episode 8, "Town On Fire."
Pretty Woman
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Lady PalimoreMia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as...
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
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Imitation of Life
as Lora's FriendIn 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a...
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Tea for Two
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Going Berserk
as Margaret AndersonJohn Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator,...
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High School U.S.A.
as Mrs. FranklinSet in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique...
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Dear God
as Elinor DonahueA judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he...
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within
as Rebecca Quinn DickinsonWhen Dr. Mike and Sully travel to Boston for Colleen's graduation from medical school, they find...
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Police Story: No Margin for Error
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Girls Town
as Mary Lee MorganChip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the...
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Singing Guns
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In Name Only
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Love Is Better Than Ever
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Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
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And Now Tomorrow
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The Happy Years
as Connie BrownBased on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a...
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Her First Romance
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Gidget Gets Married
as Medley BlaineGidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
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The Unfinished Dance
as Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.
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Tenth Avenue Angel
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The Father Knows Best Reunion
as Betty AndersonFirst of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father...
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My Blue Heaven
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Honeymoon Lodge
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Winter Wonderland
as Betty WheelerA farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
as Maud Shaw (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find...
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Mister Big
as MuggsyStudents at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but...
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Dick Clark's Good Old Days
as uncreditedDick Clark reviews popular music of the '50s and '60s.
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Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
as Betty AndersonThe original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning...
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Three Daring Daughters
as Alix MorganThree young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Just an Overnight Guest
as uncreditedA family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.
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Doctors' Private Lives
as Mona WiseTwo heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
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Mulligan's Stew
as Jane MulliganPilot TV-Movie for the sitcom Mulligan's Stew. Michael and Jane Mulligan have three children:...
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Friends
as Aunt LillianSix young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world,...
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Star Trek
as Commissioner Nancy HedfordSpace. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the...
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The Andy Griffith Show
as Ellie WalkerThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...
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Murder, She Wrote
as Connie LewisAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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The Love Boat
as RowenaPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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The Love Boat
as Betty AndersonPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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The Love Boat
as Mrs. Van BurenPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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Cold Case
as Esther 'Legs' Davis (2005)The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as uncreditedDr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's...
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The Virginian
as Carole ColeThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
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Happy Days
as uncreditedIn 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
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The Golden Girls
as KatherineFour Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake....
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Dr. Kildare
as Sharon CallowayThe story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...
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Have Gun, Will Travel
as Letty Mae StinchcombHave Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...
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Hotel
as uncreditedHotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...
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The Rookies
as uncreditedThe Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...
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Coach
as LorraineHayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football...
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The Odd Couple
as Miriam WelbyFelix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual....
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Ellen
as Delores WarwellEllen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July...
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Eek! The Cat
as Mom (voice)Koombaya, it's Eek the cat and all his friends. Annabelle, Eek's 800-pound girlfriend, Sharky...
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Police Woman
as Ellie TarlowSergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los...
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Police Story
as uncreditedPolice Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...
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One Day at a Time
as uncreditedThe misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent...
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Dennis the Menace
as uncreditedThis 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family,...
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CHiPs
as Elnor Donahue (uncredited)Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...
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The Flying Nun
as Dr. Jennifer EthringtonYoung Sister Bertrille uses her ability to become airborne to help others, whether they want it...
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77 Sunset Strip
as Laura HoltStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
as Emily Vanderlip FosterBurns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen,...
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Father Knows Best
as Betty AndersonFamily man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three...
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Herman's Head
as Mrs. FitzerHerman's Head is an American sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 8, 1991 until...
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S.W.A.T.
as uncreditedS.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And...
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Battle of the Network Stars
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Get a Life
as Gradys PetersonGet a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network...
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The Eleventh Hour
as uncreditedThe Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack...
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The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
as Susan BaxterThe New Adventures of Beans Baxter is an adventure/comedy television series The show revolves...
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Letter to Loretta
as Debbie WaringLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
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Letter to Loretta
as JaneyLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
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Redigo
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Condominium
as Audrey AmesAn impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.
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E! True Hollywood Story
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Diff'rent Strokes
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General Electric Theater
as Carol MadsenGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as uncreditedSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
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The Brothers Brannagan
as DianeThe Brothers Brannagan is an American crime drama television series that aired in syndication...
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