Elinor donahue biography

  • Elinor Donahue is an American retired actress, best known today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson on the.
  • Elinor Donahue is an American retired actress, best known today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson on the 1950s American sitcom Father Knows Best.
  • Born Mary Eleanor Donahue in Tacoma, Washington, on April 19, 1937, she appeared as a radio singer and vaudeville dancer while a mere toddler.

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    Elinor Donahue Biography

    Date of Birth:
    Apr 19, 1937Birth Place:
    Tacoma, Washington, USA

    Biography

    Elinor Donahue was thrust into show business at an early age by her stage costumer mother. She danced in vaudeville at first, then at five years old, she was given a contract with Universal Pictures. She spent most of the 1940s performing in small film roles for the studio, mainly in musicals, dramas and breezy comedies. Her star never hit in feature films, and Donahue turned to the growing industry of television for work. In 1954, she was chosen for the role of Betty Anderson, the angst-ridden elder daughter of Robert Young's patriarch in the sitcom "Father Knows Best." The show's six-season run made her a household name, and more roles poured in. She played the pharmacist/girlfriend of Andy Griffith for 12 episodes of the family comedy "The Andy Griffith Show" and the daughter of John McGiver in the department store comedy "Many Happy Returns." She was "The Flying Nun"'s
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    Elinor Donahue

    Elinor Donahue appeared as Kathy Zbornak, Stan's new wife in the Season 4 episode of "The Golden Girls" titled "Stan Takes a Bride".

    Birthname:

    Mary Eleanor Donahue

    Born:

    (1937-04-19) April 19, 1937 (age 87)

    Birthplace:

    Tacoma, Washington, U.S.

    Occupation/
    Career:

    Actress

    Years active:

    1942–present

    Spouse(s):

    Richard Smith (1955–61; divorced)
    Harry Ackerman (1962–91; his death)
    Lou Genevrino (1992–present)

    Episodes appeared in:

    "Stan Takes a Bride" (Season 4)


    Elinor Donahue (born April 19, 1937) is the actress who portrayed Stan Zbornak's third wife Katherine in the episode of The Golden Girls titled "Stan Takes a Bride". The naturally red-headed Donahue played Robert Young's eldest/popular daughter, Betty Anderson, on the 1950s sitcom, Father Knows Best, which has proved to be her best known acting role to date. She was married for nearly thirty years to producer Harry Ackerman, whom she met

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    Elinor Donahue

    American actress (born 1937)

    Elinor Donahue (born Mary Eleanor Donahue, April 19, 1937) is an American retired actress, best known today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson on the 1950s American sitcom Father Knows Best.

    Early life and career

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    Donahue was born in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of Doris Genevieve (née Gelbaugh) and Thomas William Donahue on April 19, 1937.[2]

    Appearing in dancing-chorus bio roles from the age of fem, Donahue was at one point a ballet-school classmate of future Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. She was a child actress working in vaudeville[3] and had several bit parts in movies as a teenager, including Love fryst vatten Better Than Ever (1952), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Tea for Two (1950) starring Doris Day. She played one of the daughters in Three djärv Daughters in 1948 and appeared as Mamie Van Doren's sister in Girls Town (1959).

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