Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress from the 1940s to 1990. Some of her movies include: Gentleman's Agreement (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Enchanted Cottage, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Old Yeller (as the mother). She passed away in 2001 at the age of 85.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2581 |
| Birthday | 1916-06-14 |
| Place of Birth | Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
| Also Known As | Dorothy Hackett McGuire, 多萝西·麦圭尔, |
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.415/212
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
1987
Summer Heat
4.636/11
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
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Summer Heat
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7.533/106
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1957
Old Yeller
6.886/297
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 18...
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Old Yeller
1946
The Spiral Staircase
7.047/274
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
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The Spiral Staircase
1947
Gentleman's Agreement
6.996/274
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Gentleman's Agreement
1954
Three Coins in the Fountain
5.905/58
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a sec...
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Three Coins in the Fountain
1990
The Last Best Year
7.667/3
Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and...
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The Last Best Year
1956
Friendly Persuasion
6.684/141
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...
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Friendly Persuasion
1945
The Enchanted Cottage
7.419/31
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a...
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The Enchanted Cottage
1960
Swiss Family Robinson
6.856/347
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they...
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Swiss Family Robinson
1959
A Summer Place
6.593/54
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequence...
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A Summer Place
1971
Flight of the Doves
5.923/13
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
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Flight of the Doves
1954
Make Haste to Live
6.036/14
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
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Make Haste to Live
1951
Callaway Went Thataway
5.633/15
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is...
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Callaway Went Thataway
1961
Susan Slade
5.857/14
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
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Susan Slade
1946
Till the End of Time
6.4/19
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with...
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Till the End of Time
1950
Mister 880
7.114/35
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama...
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Mister 880
1990
Caroline?
5.818/11
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his u...
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Caroline?
1983
Ghost Dancing
6/2
Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving...
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Ghost Dancing
1955
Trial
6.941/17
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute pr...
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Trial
1959
This Earth Is Mine
6.563/8
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...
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This Earth Is Mine
1952
Invitation
6.714/7
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
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Invitation
1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
6.467/15
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife...
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1959
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
7.143/7
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisb...
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1943
Claudia
7.5/6
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afra...
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Claudia
1985
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
6.6/5
A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
1950
Mother Didn't Tell Me
6.5/5
Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she...
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Mother Didn't Tell Me
1951
I Want You
5.25/8
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veter...
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I Want You
1946
Claudia and David
7.5/4
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Conne...
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Claudia and David
1985
Amos
7.25/12
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here...
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Amos
1963
Summer Magic
6.663/52
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up...
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Summer Magic
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
4.4/5
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1975
The Runaways
8/1
A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which...
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The Runaways
1986
American Geisha
8/2
On a trip to Japan, an American student watches the lives of the Geishas in a tea house.
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American Geisha
1988
I Never Sang for My Father
7/1
A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow...
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I Never Sang for My Father
1972
Another Part of the Forest
10/1
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
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Another Part of the Forest
1973
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
6.095/63
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he does...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1979
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
6.75/4
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalach...
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1957
The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
7/1
"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansb...
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The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
1949
The Art Director
7/2
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...
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The Art Director
1944
Reward Unlimited
7.5/2
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Reward Unlimited
1972
She Waits
5.875/8
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
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She Waits
1986
Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
10/2
What better way to say goodnight than with Disney's Greatest Lullabies? Soothing refrains from masterfully crafted shorts and features you come to kn...
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Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
2002
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
0/0
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
1960
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
0/0
A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago. Then the True Life Adventure Water Birds.
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