Elinor Donahue

Actress

Female

Born Apr 19, 1937

Age 76

Hometown Tacoma, Washington

Other Names Donahue, Mary Ele...

Mary Eleanor Donahue, best known as Elinor Donahue, is an American actress. The naturally red-headed Donahue played Robert Young's eldest/popular daughter, Betty Anderson, on the 1950s sitcom, Father Knows Best. She was married for nearly 30 years to… Read More

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10th Anniversary of the Archive

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Jun 4, 2007

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Elinor Donahue 10th Anniversary of the Archive of the American TV held at the Crustacean Restaurant

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Jun 3, 2007

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Janewyattretro F4031-f4034 Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin and Jane Wyatt 04-1987

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Oct 23, 2006

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Dawn Wells, Tony Dow and Elinor Donahue E9743 1983 Photo by Globe Photos

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Lou Genevrino

Married 1992
Harry Ackerman
Married 1961 - 1991
Jack Jones
Dated 1959 - 1960
Richard Smith

Married 1955

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Dvd Review: Dennis The Menace (Season Two) Inside Pulse
Google News - Aug 02, 2011

Elinor Donahue is the niece. She had just finished Father Knows Best. Mr. Wilson gets goofed into bidding in an auction on “Dennis and the Radio Set.” He's stuck with a clunky radio that becomes a bigger problem when they find cash stuffed inside
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"Restless" might have be the most diverse in terms of age, with 11-year-old Garrett Ryan and veteran thesp Elinor Donahue, who played Judge "Anderson," a nod to the actress' role on "Father Knows Best." Overlooked: "As the World Turns" for discovering
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From Hollywood To Springfield Springfield Connection
Google News - Jun 07, 2011

Ackerman, born and raised in Southern California, is the son of the late producer Harry Ackerman (“Bewitched,” “Dennis the Menace”) and actress Elinor Donahue (“Father Knows Best,” “The Andy Griffith Show”). Ackerman said in his early career he
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Father Knows Best: Season Six Dvd Talk
Google News - May 23, 2011

Eldest Betty Anderson (Elinor Donahue) is now a senior in college, and when she's not obsessing about doing everything perfectly (including the proper etiquette for romancing in 1950s America), she's beginning to find her own voice and purpose outside
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Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Elinor Donahue.

CHILDHOOD

1937 Birth Born on April 19, 1937.

TWENTIES

1960 23 Years Old She appeared in 1960 with Marion Ross in an episode (""Duet") of the crime drama series The Brothers Brannagan. … Read More

1964 27 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1964, Donahue appeared as Melanie in "The Secret in the Stone" in the NBC medical drama, The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy.

FORTIES

1978 41 Years Old In 1978, Donahue starred in the NBC sitcom "Please Stand By."

1984 47 Years Old In 1984, she made an appearance as Mrs. Broderick, the mother of a teenaged drug addict on the last season of Happy Days.

FIFTIES

1987 50 Years Old In 1987 she played the title character's mother in the short lived Fox series "The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter". … Read More

1990 53 Years Old In 1990, she played the part of "Bridget," a Beverly Hills clothing store manager, in the movie Pretty Woman. … Read More

1994 57 Years Old In 1994, she made an appearance as Aunt Lillian in The One Where Nana Dies Twice on Friends.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1998 61 Years Old In 1998, Donahue published a memoir entitled In the Kitchen with Elinor Donahue, in which she relived some of her memories of Hollywood along with providing more than 150 of her recipes.

2010 73 Years Old In September 2010, Donahue made an appearance on The Young and the Restless as Judge Anderson, one of Nikki Newman's old friends, and also as the woman who will be marrying Billy Abbott and Nikki's daughter, Victoria Newman.

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