Dorothy McGuire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly Persuasion.
41 Facts About Dorothy McGuire
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Dorothy McGuire starred as the eponymous mother in the popular film Swiss Family Robinson.
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Dorothy McGuire made her stage debut at age 13 at the local community playhouse in Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella.
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Dorothy McGuire's co-star was Henry Fonda, who was born in Nebraska and was making a return visit to his home town after becoming a success on Broadway.
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Dorothy McGuire later attended Pine Manor Junior College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, serving as president of that school's drama club.
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Dorothy McGuire graduated from Pine Manor when she was 19.
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Dorothy McGuire was one of the most sought after models under Walter Thornton's management.
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Dorothy McGuire appeared in summer stock at Deertrees, Maine, in 1937 before going to New York.
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Dorothy McGuire acted on radio, playing Sue in the serial Big Sister and took part in an experimental television broadcast, The Mysterious Mummy Case.
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Dorothy McGuire was hired by producer Jed Harris to understudy the ingenue in a Broadway play, Stop Over, which ran only 23 performances.
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Dorothy McGuire was an understudy to Martha Scott in Our Town in 1938, eventually taking over Scott's role.
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Dorothy McGuire toured in My Dear Children opposite John Barrymore, and in 1939, was in a revue with Benny Goodman, Swingin' the Dream.
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Dorothy McGuire had a role in the short-lived Medicine Show, and a part in the longer-running revival of Kind Lady.
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Dorothy McGuire gained attention on Broadway when cast in the title role of the domestic comedy Claudia.
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Dorothy McGuire is personally genuine; the charm she radiates across the play is not merely theatrical mannerism.
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Dorothy McGuire's co-star in Claudia was Robert Young, and RKO reunited them in The Enchanted Cottage, which was a box-office success.
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So, too, was The Spiral Staircase in which Dorothy McGuire played the lead role, a mute.
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Dorothy McGuire was offered the lead in Anna and the King of Siam, but turned it down to go travelling with her family.
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Dorothy McGuire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement directed by Kazan for Fox.
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Dorothy McGuire appeared in productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, I Am a Camera, The Winslow Boy, and Tonight at 8:30, then went to live in Italy for a year.
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Selznick announced a variety of films to star Dorothy McGuire that were not made, including Dark Medallion, A Doll's House Wings of the Dove and Sands of Time.
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Dorothy McGuire appeared in This Is My Best, Screen Directors Playhouse and in Theatre Guild on the Air.
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Dorothy McGuire spent some time away from screens before returning in two movies for Fox, Mother Didn't Tell Me and Mister 880.
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Dorothy McGuire made her TV debut in Robert Montgomery Presents, an adaptation of Dark Victory, with McGuire playing the Bette Davis role.
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Schary had become head of production at MGM, where Dorothy McGuire appeared in Callaway Went Thataway, which lost money.
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Dorothy McGuire did I Want You for Sam Goldwyn, then returned to Broadway for Legend of Lovers, but it only had a short run.
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Dorothy McGuire made Invitation at MGM, which flopped, and Make Haste to Live at Republic.
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Dorothy McGuire was cast as Gary Cooper's wife in Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler.
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Dorothy McGuire returned to Broadway in Winesburg, Ohio, which had a short run, then she played a wife and mother in The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker at Fox.
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Dorothy McGuire played the matriarch in some melodramas: This Earth Is Mine with Jean Simmons at Universal; A Summer Place for Delmer Daves with Richard Egan, Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue at Warner Bros.
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Dorothy McGuire returned to Disney with Swiss Family Robinson, one of the most popular films of the year.
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Dorothy McGuire made a second film with Daves and Donahue, Susan Slade, playing a mother who passed off her daughter's illegitimate child as her own.
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Dorothy McGuire was a mother in Disney's Summer Magic.
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Dorothy McGuire played the Virgin Mary in The Greatest Story Ever Told.
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Dorothy McGuire was off screen for a number of years before returning in a British family film, Flight of the Doves.
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Dorothy McGuire appeared in some TV movies, She Waits and a PBS adaptation of Another Part of the Forest.
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Dorothy McGuire provided voice work for Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and made one final appearance on Broadway in a revival of The Night of the Iguana alongside Richard Chamberlain.
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Dorothy McGuire was in episodes of Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Love Boat, Glitter, St Elsewhere, and Highway to Heaven.
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Dorothy McGuire provided the narration for Summer Heat, and toured in 1987 in I Never Sang for My Father.
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Dorothy McGuire is the aunt of an Indonesian-American actress, medical doctor and Miss International Indonesia 2022, Cindy May McGuire.
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Dorothy McGuire died of cardiac arrest on September 13,2001, following a brief illness, at the age of 85.