Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy McGuire

Birthday: 1916-06-14

Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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.

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The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

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Summer Heat
Summer Heat

The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand....

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

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Old Yeller
Old Yeller

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother whi...

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The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer....

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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism....

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Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain

Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into...

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The Last Best Year
The Last Best Year

Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she con...

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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

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The Enchanted Cottage
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 ...

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Swiss Family Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressiv...

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A Summer Place
A Summer Place

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children beg...

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Flight of the Doves
Flight of the Doves

While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a mas...

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Make Haste to Live
Make Haste to Live

A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker....

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Callaway Went Thataway
Callaway Went Thataway

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t...

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Susan Slade
Susan Slade

A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own....

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Till the End of Time
Till the End of Time

Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss o...

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Mister 880
Mister 880

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is als...

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Caroline?
Caroline?

Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter ...

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Ghost Dancing
Ghost Dancing

Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-cit...

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Trial
Trial

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom ...

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This Earth Is Mine
This Earth Is Mine

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide wheth...

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Invitation
Invitation

A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out....

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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes ba...

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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combin...

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Claudia
Claudia

Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand l...

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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Between the Darkness and the Dawn

A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later....

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Mother Didn't Tell Me
Mother Didn't Tell Me

Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite war...

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I Want You
I Want You

The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea h...

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Claudia and David
Claudia and David

The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles...

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Amos
Amos

Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or spe...

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Summer Magic
Summer Magic

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps t...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, ...

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The Runaways
The Runaways

A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft ...

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American Geisha
American Geisha

On a trip to Japan, an American student watches the lives of the Geishas in a tea house....

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I Never Sang for My Father
I Never Sang for My Father

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it ...

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Another Part of the Forest
Another Part of the Forest

A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of gree...

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, a...

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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring ...

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The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
The Best Doggoned Dog in the World

"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. I...

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The Art Director
The Art Director

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...

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Reward Unlimited
Reward Unlimited

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

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She Waits
She Waits

When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the...

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Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

What better way to say goodnight than with Disney's Greatest Lullabies? Soothing refrains from mast...

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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)...

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Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago...

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