Biography: Dorothy McGuire |

American actress Dorothy McGuire made her stage debut at age 13 in A Kiss For Cinderella in her home town of Omaha, opposite fellow aspiring actor and Omaha native Henry Fonda. McGuire went to Broadway in 1938 to understudy Martha Scott in the role... more
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Tags: Message Movie Drama Rural Drama 
Length: 100min
In a rare television appearance, Dorothy McGuire plays a farm widow who has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving the rural outskirts virtually dry. Attempting to...

Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985)
Tags: Drama 
Length: 100min
Elizabeth Montgomery plays a woman who awakens from a 20-year coma. Her adjustment to the new world around her is made doubly difficult by the knowledge that her long-ago sweetheart has married her sister (Karen Grassle). Worse still, Montgomery...

Cast: Dorothy McGuire Stanley Holloway   
Tags: Family Drama Adventure Adventure Drama 
Length: 101min
Two children set out in search of freedom and a loving home in this adventure drama based on a novel by Walter Macken. Finn Dove (Jack Wild) and his sister Derval (Helen Raye), a pair of children living in England, are tired of the tyranny of their...

Cast: Patty Duke   
Tags: Supernatural Horror Thriller 
Length: 74min
She Waits, directed by Delbert Mann, an above average, frightening made-for-TV horror film tells the very familiar story of a young couple who move into a old house only to find out that they are being haunted by the ghost of the man's ex-wife, who...

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Cast: Max von Sydow John Wayne Robert Loggia José Ferrer Charlton Heston Claude Rains   
Tags: Religious Epic Epic Hagiography 
Length: 196min
Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this (20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played...

Cast: Walt Disney   
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Family 
Length: 115min
A young widow from Boston travels with her three children to Maine to enjoy their summer vacation. Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) is helped by the friendly Osh Popham (Burl Ives), who finds the family a rent-free house vacated by a vacationing...

Cast: Lloyd Nolan   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 116min
A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve 17-year-old who is at a mountain resort in Alaska when she falls in love with a climber (Grant Williams). They have an affair, and she ends up pregnant, but...

The Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Cast: John Mills   
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Sea Adventure Adventure 
Length: 126min
None of the many cinemadaptations of Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson are as relentlessly enjoyable as this 1960 Disney feature. The film wastes no time getting down to business, with the shipwreck of the Robinson family occurring as the credits...

Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Teen Movie Drama Romance 
Length: 130min
The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He...

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
Cast: Angela Lansbury   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: 123min
Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Preston portrays an early 20th-century harness salesman, fully aware that his product is rapidly becoming obsolete. He tries to...



























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