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 ABCs 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 ABCs The Odd Couple, Jane Mulligan on Mulligans Stew, and Nurse Hunnicut on Days of Our Lives.She was featured in 12 episodes of CBSs 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 NBCs 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.

Κινηματογράφος μη διαθέσιμο από Elinor Donahue

Doctors' Private Lives

Mona Wise

Ταινία 1978

Singing Guns

Little Girl (uncredited)

Ταινία 1950

Love Is Better Than Ever

Pattie Marie Levoy

Ταινία 1952

Tea for Two

Ταινία 1950

Police Story: No Margin for Error

Ταινία 1978

Gidget Gets Married

Medley Blaine

Ταινία 1972

The Unfinished Dance

Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)

Ταινία 1947

Three Daring Daughters

Alix Morgan

Ταινία 1948

Mulligan's Stew

Jane Mulligan

Ταινία 1977

And Now Tomorrow

Janice

Ταινία 1944

Her First Romance

Lucille Stewart

Ταινία 1951

Mister Big

Muggsy

Ταινία 1943

In Name Only

Esther Garrity

Ταινία 1969

Dick Clark's Good Old Days

Ταινία 1977

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within

Rebecca Quinn Dickinson

Ταινία 2001

Going Berserk

Margaret Anderson

Ταινία 1983

Girls' Town

Bit Role (uncredited)

Ταινία 1942

Tenth Avenue Angel

Cynthia (uncredited)

Ταινία 1948

Just an Overnight Guest

Ταινία 1983

The Father Knows Best Reunion

Betty Anderson

Ταινία 1977

My Blue Heaven

Mary (uncredited)

Ταινία 1950

Honeymoon Lodge

Janie Thomas

Ταινία 1943

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

Self

Ταινία 2016

No Earthly Reason

Mrs. Morrison

Ταινία 1984

Τηλεοπτική σειρά μη διαθέσιμο από Elinor Donahue

The Andy Griffith Show

Ellie Walker

Tv 1960

Murder, She Wrote

Connie Lewis

Tv 1984

Star Trek

Commissioner Nancy Hedford

Tv 1966

Ellen

Delores Warwell

Tv 1994

The Rookies

Tv 1972

The Odd Couple

Miriam Welby

Tv 1970

The Love Boat

Rowena

Tv 1977

Friends

Aunt Lillian

Tv 1994

The Golden Girls

Katherine

Tv 1985

The Flying Nun

Dr. Jennifer Ethrington

Tv 1967

Cold Case

Esther 'Legs' Davis (2005)

Tv 2003

Diff'rent Strokes

Tv 1978

E! True Hollywood Story

Tv 1996

Hotel

Tv 1982

Happy Days

Tv 1974

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Tv 1993

General Electric Theater

Carol Madsen

Tv 1953

Get a Life

Gradys Peterson

Tv 1990

Many Happy Returns

Tv 1964

Redigo

Tv 1963

The Eleventh Hour

Tv 1962

Dennis the Menace

Tv 1959

Battle of the Network Stars

Tv 1976

Police Story

Tv 1973

S.W.A.T.

Tv 1975

The Virginian

Carole Cole

Tv 1962

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Tv 1951

Occasional Wife

Tv 1966

Mulligan's Stew

Jane Mulligan

Tv 1977

Dr. Kildare

Sharon Calloway

Tv 1961

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Tv 1969

Letter to Loretta

Debbie Waring

Tv 1953

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Emily Vanderlip Foster

Tv 1950

The Love Boat

Betty Anderson

Tv 1977

Letter to Loretta

Janey

Tv 1953

CHiPs

Elnor Donahue (uncredited)

Tv 1977

The Brothers Brannagan

Diane

Tv 1960

One Day at a Time

Tv 1975

The Love Boat

Mrs. Van Buren

Tv 1977

Police Woman

Ellie Tarlow

Tv 1974

Herman's Head

Mrs. Fitzer

Tv 1991

Coach

Lorraine

Tv 1989

Have Gun, Will Travel

Letty Mae Stinchcomb

Tv 1957

77 Sunset Strip

Laura Holt

Tv 1958