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Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy Hackett McGuire was a graceful and versatile film actress who appeared in more than 25 movies from 1943 until suffering a debilitating hip injury in the early 1990s. She was best known for her work in the 1940s and 1950s playing the weary wife of an alcoholic in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), the mute heroine in the thriller The Spiral Staircase (1946) and the romantic lead in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).

English
Filmography

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973
as Mother

Little Women (1978)

1978
as Marmee March

The Spiral Staircase

1946
as Helen Capel

Callaway Went Thataway

1951
as Deborah Patterson

The Last Best Year

1990
as Anne

Invitation

1952
as Ellen Bowker Pierce

This Earth Is Mine

1959
as Martha Fairon

Susan Slade

1961
as Leah Slade

Till the End of Time

1946
as Pat Ruscomb

Flight of the Doves

1971
as Granny O'Flaherty

Summer Magic

1963
as Mrs. Margaret Carey

I Want You

1951
as Nancy Greer

Between the Darkness and the Dawn

1985
as Beryl Foster

Old Yeller

1957
as Katie Coates

Amos

1985
as Hester Farrell

Mister 880

1950
as Ann Winslow

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945
as Katie Nolan

I Never Sang for My Father

1989
as Margaret Garrison

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1959
as Mrs. Emily 'Ma' Pennypacker

Mother Didn't Tell Me

1950

Gentleman's Agreement

1947
as Kathy Lacy

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

1979
as Effie Webb

Claudia

1943
as Claudia

Caroline?

1990
as Flora Atkins

Make Haste to Live

1954
as Crystal Benson

Swiss Family Robinson

1960
as Mother

The Best Doggoned Dog in the World

1957
as Dorothy McGuire

A Summer Place

1959
as Sylvia Hunter

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as The Virgin Mary

She Waits

1972
as Sarah Wilson

Friendly Persuasion

1956
as Eliza Birdwell

Claudia and David

1946
as Claudia Naughton

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960
as Cora Flood

Three Coins in the Fountain

1954
as Miss Frances

Trial

1955
as Abbe

Guest Star

Episode Hotel
Skeletons 		1985
Episode St. Elsewhere
Family Feud 		1986
Episode The Love Boat
Too Many Dads/Love Will Find a Way/The Best of Friends 		1982
Episode St. Elsewhere
Family Affair 		1986
Episode St. Elsewhere
Family Ties 		1986
Episode What's My Line?
Dorothy McGuire 		1954