Dorothy McGuire
Acting
Biography
Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress from the 1940s to 1990. Some of her movies include: Gentleman's Agreement (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Enchanted Cottage, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Old Yeller (as the mother). She passed away in 2001 at the age of 85.
Born: June 14, 1916
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Known For
Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
What better way to say goodnight than with Disney's Greatest Lullabies? Soothing refrains from masterfully crafted shorts and features you come to know and love. The most poignant, precious moments from the vast Disney library presented in this enchanted series. Certain to turn any child into a Sleeping Beauty--the best lullabies in the world--from Disney!
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Rich Man, Poor Man
Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
The Enchanted Cottage
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Highway to Heaven
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Claudia
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
Mister 880
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
The Spiral Staircase
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
The Last Best Year
Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
Filmography
as Self (archive)
as Anne
as Flora Atkins
as Margaret Garrison
as Narrator
as Ann Suzuki
as (archive footage)
as Beryl Foster
as Hester Farrell
as Augusta Endicott
as Effie Webb
as Marmee March
as Hanna Hamilton
as Mary Jordache
as Angela Lakey
as Mother (voice)
as Lavinia Hubbard
as Sarah Wilson
as Granny O'Flaherty
as The Virgin Mary
as Mrs. Margaret Carey
as Self (uncredited)
as Leah Slade
as Mother
as Cora Flood
as Sylvia Hunter
as Martha Fairon
as Mrs. Emily 'Ma' Pennypacker
as Katie Coates
as Eliza Birdwell
as Abbe Nyle
as Janet Spence
as Miranda
as Miss Frances
as Crystal Benson
as Ellen Pierce
as Flora Atkins
as Nancy Greer
as Deborah Patterson
as Ann Winslow
as Jane Morgan
as Self
as Judith Traherne
as Self / Kathy Lacy (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Kathy Lacy
as Pat Ruscomb
as Claudia Naughton
as Helen
as Laura Pennington
as Katie Nolan
as Peggy
as Claudia