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Elinor Donahue and Lauren Chapin on Father Knows Best in 1959. Donahue was a musical judge in ABC 's Jukebox Jury (1953–54). [ 5 ] 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.
Father Knows Best is an American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin. The series, which began on radio in 1949, aired as a television show for six seasons and 203 episodes. Created by Ed James, Father Knows Best follows the lives of the Andersons, a middle-class family living in the town of ...
By that time, Donahue had appeared in dozens of programs — "Andy Griffith," "Star Trek" and "77 Sunset Strip," to name a few — and became a fan-favorite character during her three-year run on ...
Three years later, as a memorial to her husband and to serve as an important resource for research on the history of American television, Elinor Donahue donated the Harry Ackerman Collection of personal papers to the Rauner Library at Dartmouth College. [7] Ackerman was an alumnus of Dartmouth, class of 1935. [7]
Jane Waddington Wyatt (/ ˈ w aɪ ə t / WY-ət; August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress.She starred in a number of Hollywood films, such as Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as homemaker and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the ...
Lawrence Pressman with Mulligan's Stew co-star Elinor Donahue in 1977. Born: David Milton Pressman [1] July 10, 1939 (age 85) Cynthiana, Kentucky, U.S.
For The Andy Griffith Show, Peterson initially read for the role of Ellie Walker, a love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, but the role went to Elinor Donahue. Soon after, she was selected to play the role of Charlene Darling. The only daughter of Briscoe Darling, she had a crush on Sheriff Taylor ("Pa, can't I even just look at the pretty man?").
Elinor Donahue as Jennifer Ethrington, Sister Bertrille's sister, a dedicated, if overscheduled, pediatrician. Jennifer politely declined Carlos' proposal of marriage and eventually married a doctor. Rich Little as Brother Paul, a brilliant but disaster-prone monk.