Elinor Donahue
Mary Eleanor Donahue (born April 19, 1937), 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 producer Harry Ackerman, whom she met on the set of that series. She and Harry Ackerman had three children together: Peter, James, and Christopher Ackerman.
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Filmography
Selected Elinor Donahue film and TV show credits:
Acting Credits
1999
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Mrs. Lebowitz
1987
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
Susan Baxter
1984
No Earthly Reason
Mrs. Morrison
1981
The Grady Nutt Show
Ellie Williams
1980
Condominium
Audrey Ames
1979
Doctors' Private Lives
Mona Welk
1978
Doctors' Private Lives
Mona Wise
1978
No Margin for Error
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1978
Please Stand By
Carol Lambert
1977
The Feather and Father Gang
Julie
1977
The Father Knows Best Reunion
Betty Anderson
1969
In Name Only
Esther Garrity
1966
Occasional Wife
Linda Sue
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah
Julie Wade
1964
Many Happy Returns
Joan Randall
1963
Redigo
Joanie-Mae Kilpatrick
1962
The Eleventh Hour
Melanie
1960
Insight
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1958
U.S. Marshal
Martha Watson
1957
Goodyear Theatre
Connie Peters
1954
Betty 'Princess' Anderson, Betty, Betty 'Princess' Anderson', Betty 'Princess' Anderson'
1953
Where's Raymond?
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1949
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Maud Shaw
1948
Arkansas Swing
Toni MacGregor
1946
Little Miss Big
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1944
Bowery to Broadway
Bessie Jo as a Child
1943
Mister Big
Muggsy
1943
Honeymoon Lodge
Janie Thomas
1942
Girls' Town
Bit Role
Soundtrack Credits
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