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.
Mona Wise
Ταινία 1978
Little Girl (uncredited)
Ταινία 1950
Pattie Marie Levoy
Ταινία 1952
Ταινία 1950
Ταινία 1978
Medley Blaine
Ταινία 1972
Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
Ταινία 1947
Alix Morgan
Ταινία 1948
Jane Mulligan
Ταινία 1977
Janice
Ταινία 1944
Lucille Stewart
Ταινία 1951
Muggsy
Ταινία 1943
Esther Garrity
Ταινία 1969
Ταινία 1977
Rebecca Quinn Dickinson
Ταινία 2001
Margaret Anderson
Ταινία 1983
Bit Role (uncredited)
Ταινία 1942
Cynthia (uncredited)
Ταινία 1948
Ταινία 1983
Betty Anderson
Ταινία 1977
Mary (uncredited)
Ταινία 1950
Janie Thomas
Ταινία 1943
Self
Ταινία 2016
Mrs. Morrison
Ταινία 1984
Ellie Walker
Tv 1960
Connie Lewis
Tv 1984
Commissioner Nancy Hedford
Tv 1966
Delores Warwell
Tv 1994
Tv 1972
Miriam Welby
Tv 1970
Rowena
Tv 1977
Aunt Lillian
Tv 1994
Katherine
Tv 1985
Dr. Jennifer Ethrington
Tv 1967
Esther 'Legs' Davis (2005)
Tv 2003
Tv 1978
Tv 1996
Tv 1982
Tv 1974
Tv 1993
Carol Madsen
Tv 1953
Gradys Peterson
Tv 1990
Tv 1964
Tv 1963
Tv 1962
Tv 1959
Tv 1976
Tv 1973
Tv 1975
Carole Cole
Tv 1962
Tv 1951
Tv 1966
Jane Mulligan
Tv 1977
Sharon Calloway
Tv 1961
Tv 1969
Debbie Waring
Tv 1953
Emily Vanderlip Foster
Tv 1950
Betty Anderson
Tv 1977
Janey
Tv 1953
Elnor Donahue (uncredited)
Tv 1977
Diane
Tv 1960
Tv 1975
Mrs. Van Buren
Tv 1977
Ellie Tarlow
Tv 1974
Mrs. Fitzer
Tv 1991
Lorraine
Tv 1989
Letty Mae Stinchcomb
Tv 1957
Laura Holt
Tv 1958