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Elinor Donahue, nascuda Mary Eleanor Donahue (Tacoma, Washington, 19 d’abril de 1937), és una jubilada actriu nord-americana, coneguda avui per interpretar el paper de Betty Anderson, la filla gran de Jim i Margaret Anderson a la comèdia de situació nord-americana dels anys 50 "Father Knows Best".

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Elinor Donahue

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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."

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Elinor Donahue (eigentlich Mary Eleanor Donahue, * 19. April 1937 in Tacoma, Washington) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Bereits als kleines Kind trat Donahue als Sängerin im Radio auf. Im Alter von fünf Jahren wurde sie von den Universal Studios verpflichtet und war ab 1943 in meist kleineren Kino-Nebenrollen zu sehen. In ihren frühen Jugendjahren trat sie auch als Tänzerin in Las Vegas auf. Einem breiten Publikum wurde Donahue ab 1954 durch ihre Hauptrolle als älteste Tochter Betty Anderson in der Familienserie Vater ist der Beste mit Robert Young und Jane Wyatt bekannt, die eine der erfolgreichsten US-Fernsehserien der 1950er-Jahre war.

In der ersten Staffel der The Andy Griffith Show hatte Donahue eine feste Rolle als Pharmazeutin Ellie Walker, die sie aufgrund von Überanstrengung und gesundheitlichen Problemen aufgab. Eine größere Hollywood-Karriere blieb danach aus, aber sie war in den folgenden Jahrzehnten dennoch in einigen bekannten Filmen und Serien zu sehen. Bekannt wurde Donahue auch durch ihre wiederkehrende Rolle als Miriam, die Freundin von Tony Randalls Figur, in der 1970er-Jahre-Sitcom Männerwirtschaft. Zudem war sie in Filmen wie Pretty Woman sowie als Gastdarstellerin in Serien wie Raumschiff Enterprise, Mork vom Ork und Friends zu sehen. 1998 veröffentlichte Donahue das Buch In the Kitchen with Elinor Donahue.

Donahue war von 1955 bis zur Scheidung 1961 mit Richard Smith sowie von 1962 bis zu dessen Tod 1991 mit dem Fernsehproduzenten Harry Stephen Ackerman verheiratet. Seit 1992 ist sie in dritter Ehe mit Lou Genevrino verheiratet. Sie hat vier Söhne.

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