Elinor DonahueFilmography

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within

Synopsis: The long-running CBS drama series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was briefly resurrected in this made-for-TV feature film. Jane Seymour again stars as feisty 19th century doctor Michaela "Mike" Quinn, with Joe Lando as her sweetheart Sully. After a few minor crises in their frontier home town, Mike and Read More

Friends: The One Where Nana Dies Twice

Synopsis: Monica (Courteney Cox) actually has a moment of understanding with her mother (Christina Pickles), brought about by the death of Monica's grandmother (actually grandma's two deaths; the title of this episode is not a misprint). Elsewhere, Chandler's (Matthew Perry) co-worker's assume that he is Read More

Get a Life: Clip Show

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: "Clip Show" opens with Chris (Chris Elliott) sitting on an airplane, in mid-flight, excited about his journey to Iraq, which his father has convinced him is "the Disneyland of the Middle East." Chris gets up to use the men's room. "Too many free Sprites," he explains. Thinking it's the bathroom Read More

Get a Life: Bad Fish

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: An exceptionally surreal episode written by Bob Odenkirk of Mr. Show fame, this one starts with Chris (Chris Elliott) preparing for a party in the home of his landlord, Gus (Brian Doyle-Murray). Gus tries to object, but Chris tells him, "Everybody knows when you get Chris Peterson, you get Read More

Get a Life: 1977 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: During the tragically brief run of Get a Life, the show often transcended mere sitcom parody brilliance and became something unique and wonderful in the world of television -- a truly surreal comic masterpiece. That is certainly the case with the bizarrely named "1977 2000" episode (show episodes Read More

Get a Life: SPEWEY and Me

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: In what is perhaps the most-beloved Get a Life episode ever aired, and a heartfelt homage to Steven Spielberg's E.T., Chris (Chris Elliott) finds and befriends a magical, violent, ugly, smelly, puking being from outer space (played by Arturo Gil and voiced by Frank Welker). The joyfulness starts Read More

Get a Life: Chris' Brain

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris (Chris Elliott) and Gus (Brian Doyle-Murray) ignore warnings about toxic waste in their neighborhood and develop super powers. The two notice a few minor physical deformities (losing teeth, oversized pinky finger) before a government official (Mitch Pileggi, who would later play FBI deputy Read More

Get a Life: Girlfriend 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: The trouble all starts when Chris (Chris Elliott) is standing in the street in front of his house and gets hit by a car. When Tricia, the beautiful driver (Emma Samms of General Hospital) gets out to see if he's okay, Chris instantly falls in love. "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever Read More

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Rick Logan

Synopsis: The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his Read More

Get a Life: Camping 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: After some pestering, Fred (Bob Elliott) reluctantly agrees to take his son, Chris (Chris Elliott), on his annual weekend camping trip. Chris brings along his friend Larry (Sam Robards), and neither one of them knows the first thing about the woods. The two annoy Fred so much that he ditches them Read More

Get a Life: The Construction Worker Show

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: This episode is told completely through flashbacks, as Chris (Chris Elliott) writes in his diary about his encounter with three construction workers, Dick (Ritch Brinkley), Ray (Mickey Jones), and Don (Pete Spellos), who do some work on his parents' kitchen. For some unexplained reason, Chris has Read More

Get a Life: The Counterfeit Watch Story

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) buys a defective watch and ends up taking part in a dangerous undercover police sting operation in "The Counterfeit Watch Story." After watching re-runs of Sea Hunt, Chris decides it would be neat to have a watch he could wear in the shower. He races off to Read More

Get a Life: Season 02

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue, Robin Riker, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Season two of the blithely surrealistic Fox sitcom Get a Life begins as over-aged paperboy Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) celebrates his 31st birthday by moving out of the apartment over his parents' garage -- and moving into the apartment over the garage of his grumpy neighbor, police officer Gus Read More

Get a Life: Houseboy 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: The trouble begins when Chris (Chris Elliott) tries to cook something in the Potter kitchen, and ends up setting the place on fire. Assessing the damage, Chris tries to reassure Sharon (Robin Riker), telling her, "It's not burned, Sharon -- it's blackened." Chris then helpfully informs the Read More

Get a Life: The Big City

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: In this charming homage to Meet John Doe, Chris (Chris Elliott) sleepwalks into his parents' kitchen to tell them he's saved up enough money for his trip to The Big City. When they warn him about how dangerous the city is, he chides them. "You've kept me hidden away for too long, under your skirt Read More

Get a Life: Roots

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: The trouble starts when Chris (Chris Elliott) and his best friend, Larry (Sam Robards), are going through a box of memorabilia in the attic, because Larry has bet Chris that it was the Beatles, and not Peter & Gordon, that recorded "Hey Jude." Chris comes across a photo of himself as an infant, in Read More

Get a Life: Chris vs. Donald

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: It's time for the Peterson family reunion, and Fred (Bob Elliott) is stuck hosting the event this year. Fred and Gladys (Elinor Donahue) don't want to be there because Fred's relatives are mostly obnoxious buffoons like Uncle Sid (Bill Cort), who shows up with a bullhorn every year. Chris dreads Read More

Get a Life: The One Where Chris and Larry Switch Lives

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: "The One Where Chris and Larry Switch Lives" finds the intrepid hero, Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott), and his best friend, Larry Potter (Sam Robards), exploring the ancient Indian burial ground behind the mall. Their reason for going there is unclear, but once they get to the spot, Chris decides Read More

Get a Life: Chris Gets His Tonsils Out

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: This episode opens with Chris (Chris Elliott) undergoing a makeshift medical exam. Gus (Brian Doyle-Murray) is using a cigarette lighter to look at his throat. Chris mentions a burning sensation (he does have a lighter in his mouth), but Gus reassures him, "I wouldn't worry about it, unless it was Read More

Get a Life: Chris Moves Out

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Season two of the bizarrely hilarious TV series Get a Life begins with Chris (Chris Elliott) walking into the kitchen of his parents, Fred (Bob Elliott) and Gladys (Elinor Donahue), and performing his "I have a big announcement to make" dance, which entails dancing around in a circle and waving Read More

Get a Life: Chris Wins a Celebrity

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight" is the unofficial theme song of this episode, as little Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) shows cynical show biz celebrity Sandy Connors (Martin Mull) "a world of life, hope, and laughter." The episode has a special resonance for fans because Sandy bears an Read More

Get a Life: Prisoner of Love

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Brilliant screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote the time-travel episode, "1977 2000," and went on to write Being John Malkovich, wrote this episode, in which Chris (Chris Elliott) gets a visit from his prison pen pal, Irma (Nora Dunn), that ends in a terrifying stand-off with the cops. Read More

Get a Life: Health Inspector 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris (Chris Elliott) gets a job as a health inspector and ends up testifying before a senate subcommittee in this shocking episode. Chris is sitting down to a nice healthy breakfast with Gus (Brian Doyle-Murray) when a dead rat plops down out of the milk carton and into his cereal bowl. Chris Read More

Get a Life: Larry on the Loose

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Funnyman Bob Odenkirk (later to star on HBO's Mr. Show) wrote this episode of Get a Life, in which Larry (Sam Robards) runs away from home. The trouble begins when Chris visits the Potter home, where Larry is doing household chores while his wife, Sharon (Robin Riker), supervises. Chris mocks Read More

Get a Life: Neptune 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: An adventure on the brink of death brings Chris (Chris Elliott) and his dad, Fred (Bob Elliott), closer together in the memorable Get a Life episode, "Neptune 2000." The show begins in 1971, when Young Chris (Brandon Crane) decides to take a newspaper job to pay for the $19.95 two-man submarine he Read More

Get a Life: Meat Locker 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: When lifelong enemies Chris (Chris Elliott) and Sharon (Robin Riker) get trapped in a meat locker together, unlikely romance blooms, thanks to the fertilizer of hypothermic delirium. The trouble starts when Chris barges in on Sharon's date with the wealthy Dr. Glen Morris (Drew Pillsbury). Since Read More

Get a Life: Chris Becomes a Male Escort

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) wakes up one morning and tells his beloved landlord, Gus (Brian Doyle-Murray), that he's going to get a job with the local escort service. The main appeal of the job for Chris is going to free plays. After noting that Chris has "a certain, goony, misshapen quality," Read More

Pretty Woman

Actors: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo

Synopsis: Self-involved corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he makes the acquaintance of free-spirited hooker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and decides to put her on a 3,000-dollar retainer as his "date." He Read More

Get a Life: Pile of Death

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: This slightly less than brilliant episode of the generally brilliant TV series begins when Chris (Chris Elliott) discovers that the local playground, site of his bizarre precious childhood memories (heard in audio flashback), has been condemned, and is to be replaced by a parking lot. Aghast at Read More

Get a Life: Dadicus

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris (Chris Elliott) is down at the coffee shop, regaling his fellow newsboys with tales of his sexual conquests, when the subject of the Newspaper Boy Semi-Annual Father and Son Day comes up. Chris reminisces about he and his dad, Fred (Bob Elliott), competing in the event when he was a boy, but Read More

Get a Life: Drivers License

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: When Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) sees the new waitress at the diner, he's instantly smitten. Jane (Anastasia Barzee, who also played reporter May Evans in season two's "The Big City") resists the thirtysomething paperboy at first. Jane relents, but when Chris tells her "You are gonna look Read More

Get a Life: Paperboy 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: After 18 years as a paperboy, Chris (Chris Elliott) faces his own obsolescence in this episode. Called in for a meeting with his boss, Chris thinks he's getting a promotion, but explains to his parents that he won't take a desk job. He tells them he's going to demand "a padded seat for my bike, a Read More

Get a Life: Season 01

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue, Sam Robards, Robin Riker

Synopsis: Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) undergoes the sort of bizarre, surrealistic life experiences that are all too typical for 30-year-old paperboys who still live above their parents' garage as Get a Life enters its first season. In the series opener, Chris persuades his best friend Larry Potter (Sam Robards Read More

Get a Life: Bored Straight

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) tries to teach a group of thugs how to behave, and learns a valuable lesson himself in "Bored Straight." Chris accidentally wanders into the "bad part" of Greenville, where a group of leather-jacketed hoodlums cruelly call him "Beardie," and one punches him in the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Szechuan Dragon

Synopsis: While Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is off vacationing somewhere, her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) and his pregnant wife Donna (Debbie Zipp) agree to take care of Jessica's house. Unfortunately, in past episodes Grady could barely take a breath without getting mixed up in murder, and this Read More

Get a Life: The Prettiest Week of My Life

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: In "The Prettiest Week of My Life," one of the more memorable episodes of Get a Life, Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) pursues his unlikely dream of becoming a male model. "I won the genetic lottery," he tells his skeptical parents before running off to enroll in the Handsome Boy Modeling School. Read More

Get a Life: Terror on the Hell Loop 2000

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: All the craziness of Get a Life started with this episode: "Terror on the Hell Loop 2000." Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) is introduced to us as a 30-year-old man, lying in bed, in the room above his parents' garage, awakening from a nightmare about an unpleasant experience on The $20,000 Pyramid. Read More

Get a Life [TV Series]

Actors: Bob Elliott, Chris Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: In 1990, the upstart Fox network took a chance on a chubby, balding thirty-ish kid with a big dream, and began airing Get a Life, Late Night with David Letterman regular Chris Elliott's absurdist sitcom about a chubby, balding thirty-ish kid who lives with his parents and works as a paperboy. Read More

Get a Life: A Family Affair

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Will Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) find true love with Charleene (Blair Tefkin)? Not if Charleene's sister, Sharon Potter (Robin Riker), can help it. Sharon is married to Larry (Sam Robards), Chris' best friend, and she's always despised Chris. The trouble starts for her when she has Charleene Read More

Get a Life: Zoo Animals on Wheels

Actors: Chris Elliott, Bob Elliott, Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: An intoxicating tribute to the joys of musical theater, this episode begins with Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott) telling his parents, Fred (Bob Elliott) and Gladys (Elinor Donahue), that he's auditioning for a local production of "Andrew Todd Keller's masterpiece, Zoo Animals on Wheels." In Read More

High School USA

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox is among the young sitcom stars enlisted for this made-for-TV teen film, about a battle between the rich, popular kids and their average counterparts. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Going Berserk

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Sound of Music - Hazzard Style

Synopsis: Mickey Gilley shows up in Hazzard County to perform a charity concert. Figuring that charity begins at home, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) plans to cash in on the concert by making a bootleg tape and selling it to a pirate record company. When the FBI shows up, Boss' flunkeys make their escape by Read More

Condominium

Actors: Pamela Hensley, Jack Jones, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Condominium is a two-part, four-hour TV adaptation of the novel by John D. McDonald. The setting is a hastily constructed Florida high-rise, assembled at the least possible cost by its greedy owners. An oncoming hurricane threatens to topple the structure and its residents into the ocean. Various Read More

Doctors' Private Lives

Actors: Bettye Ackerman

Synopsis: Doctors' Private Lives was the 2-hour pilot film for the shortlived TV series of the same name. Ed Nelson and John Gavin star as, respectively, chief surgeon Dr. Michael Wise and cardiovascular unit chief Dr. Jeffrey Latimer. The drama arises from the ongoing clash of egos between these two Read More

Mulligan's Stew [TV Series]

Actors: Lawrence Pressman, Elinor Donahue, Johnny Doran, Christopher Ciampa, Julie Anne Haddock

Synopsis: In the short-lived TV series Mulligan's Stew, high school football coach Michael Mulligan (Lawrence Pressman) and his wife Jane (Elinor Donahue), already the parents of three children, suddenly find their family unit increased from five to nine. This occurs when Michael's sister and Read More

Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas

Synopsis: Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas was the second of three TV pilot films for a proposed (and abandoned) revival of the 1950s sitcom classic Father Knows Best. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Laurin Chapin reprise their old TV roles as the Anderson family. Jim and Read More

The Father Knows Best Reunion

Synopsis: Father Knows Best was one of the most beloved situation comedies of the 1950s. Happily, all the cast members of the original FKB were still around to show up in this 72-minute TV-movie reunion (subsequently reedited to an hour). On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of Jim and Margaret Anderson (Robert Young Read More

The Flying Nun: My Sister the Doctor

Synopsis: Elinor Donahue makes her third guest appearance as obstetrician Jennifer Ethrington (Elinor Donahue), the sister of Sr. Bertrille. Determining that Jennifer is working too hard, the nuns try to lighten her burden by hiding the fact that she's a doctor. Not surprisingly, a crisis results. Nancy Read More

In Name Only

Actors: Ruth Buzzi, Christopher Connelly, Bill Daily

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers TV movie features an all-star cast in a comedy of marital mix-ups and misunderstandings. Consultants Michael Callan and Ann Prentiss arrange the marriages of several couples, only to discover that all the unions are illegal. Among those affected are a cop (Christopher Connelly) Read More

The Flying Nun: My Sister, the Sister

Synopsis: The delightful Elinor Donahue, who by a strange coincidence was the wife of Flying Nun executive producer Harry Ackerman, makes her first series appearance in the role of Jennifer Ethrington, the obstetrician sister of our heroine Sr. Bertrille. Upon being introduced to Jennifer, casino owner Read More

The Flying Nun: How to Be a Spanish Grandmother

Synopsis: Elinor Donahue returns in the role of Dr. Jennifer Ethrington, the sister of Sr. Bertrille. Having amicably ended her romance with Carlos Ramirez, Jennifer is now engaged to Paul (Richard Anders). This proves problematic when Sr. Bertrille persuades Jennifer to pose as Mrs. Ramirez in order to Read More

Star Trek: Metamorphosis

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise encounter an unexpected figure from their own history in this installment of the enduringly popular science-fiction television series. The meeting takes place when a shuttle transporting Federation official Nancy Hedford, along with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 03

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Burning Tree

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to escort a notorious wife murderer named Fairchild (Whit Bissell) to trial. But during a stopover in Osage Springs, Sheriff Stinchcomb (Paul Fix) demands at gunpoint that Paladin hand Fairchild over to him. It seems that every time the chief of a neighborhood Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Cyrano Andy

Actors: Elinor Donahue, Betty Lynn

Synopsis: Once again, Barney solicits Andy's aid in an affair of the heart. This time around, Barney and his sweetie Thelma Lou have quarreled (he claims that she doesn't take their relationship seriously), and Andy is expected to bring them back together again. The scheme involves Andy pretending to be a Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The New Doctor

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: George Nader guest-stars as George Benson, Mayberry's new doctor. All the ladies in town are impressed by Dr. Benson handsomeness and charming demeanor, including-it seems-Sheriff Andy's sweetheart Ellie Walker. Thanks to the insinuations of well-meaning deputy Barney, Andy becomes convinced that Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player Returns

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Jim Lindsey (James Best), the wandering troubadour introduced in the 1960 episode "The Guitar Player," pays a return visit to Mayberry. The townsfolk are impressed by Jim's stories of his newfound fame and fortune-stories that seem to be backed up by the guitarist's fancy new Mercedes Benz. Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry on Record

Actors: Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: A man named Ernest Maxwell (Hugh Marlowe) arrives in Mayberry, claiming to be a talent scout for a major record company. Armed with a tape recorder, Maxwell begins auditioning local talent, and soon everyone in town is currying the man's favor-everyone, that is, except Sheriff Andy Taylor. Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Horse Trader

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Hoping to rid Mayberry of that old eyesore cannon in the town square, Sheriff Andy fabricates a tall tale about the cannon's "celebrated" history to a potential buyer. The scheme backfires when Andy's son Opie begins to imitate his father's propensity for stretching the truth. Casey Adams, later Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Beauty Contest

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: It is time for the annual Mayberry Founders Day celebration, and the committee has decided to hold a beauty contest. Sheriff Andy is all for the idea-until he is appointed to judge the contest. Making matters worse, Andy's girlfriend Ellie is one of the contestants. How is the Sheriff going to get Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 06

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie Comes to Town

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: The people of Mayberry tend to be a bit resistant when an "outsider" sets up shop in town. Thus, several locals look askance when Ellie May Walker (Elinor Donahue), niece of the local druggist, takes charge of Walker's Drug Store. Almost immediately, Ellie's "modern" notions rub the traditionalist Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Irresistible Andy

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy mistakenly believes he can second-guess the opposite sex in general and Ellie Walker in particular. Convinced that Ellie is trying to snare him into marriage, Andy escorts her to the church picnic and encourages three local bachelors to woo her away. When Ellie finds out what's up Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie for Council

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy's male chauvinism boils over when his girlfriend Ellie Walker decides to run for town council-the first woman ever to do so. As the campaigning proceeds, Andy and Barney do everything they can to throw roadblocks in Ellie's political career. The Sheriff realizes the error of his ways Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Christmas Story

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: This classic episode of The Andy Griffith Show begins when Sheriff Andy compassionately decides not to lock up moonshiner Sam Muggins during Christmas week, so that Sam can spend the holidays with his family. But old Ben Weaver (Will Wright), who can out-Scrooge Scrooge and out-Grinch the Grinch Read More

Father Knows Best: 24 Hours In Tyrantland

Synopsis: This special episode of Father Knows Best was done one behalf of the United States Treasury Department in 1959, and was never aired on television -- it was, however, widely shown on 16mm prints at schools and churches, and to civic groups, to help sell U.S. Savings Bonds. Jim Anderson (Robert Read More

Girls' Town

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Mel Tormé, Paul Anka, Ray Anthony, Maggie Hayes

Synopsis: This sexually explicit, low-budget film makes no pretensions about being anything other than offensive. There is no plot since none is especially necessary. Director Charles Haas (his last film was the following year), opens with a scene of sexually active men and women at a party. Then one of Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 05

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: Season 04

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: Season 02

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: Season 01

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best [TV Series]

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Love Is Better Than Ever

Actors: Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson, Elinor Donahue, Tom Tully, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political undesirability" of star Larry Parks, whose career was effectively ruined after he humbled himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Parks plays Broadway Read More

Her First Romance

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin, Jr., Jimmy Hunt, Sharyn Moffett, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Former child star Margaret O'Brien is Betty Foster, the "all growed up" heroine of Her First Romance. Hoping to rendezvous with handsome teenager Bobby Evans (Allen Martin Jr.) at a fancy summer camp, Betty bamboozles her parents into sending her there. Once she's arrived, Betty proves her Read More

Tea for Two

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Patrice Wymore, Eve Arden, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as Nanette, a Roaring '20s Jazz Baby with showbiz aspirations. Nanette offers to put up $25,000 if producer Billy DeWolfe will star her in a Broadway Read More

Three Daring Daughters

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at least ten years younger than her 48 years, MacDonald is cast as glamorous magazine editor Louise Raton Morgan. Long divorced Louise returns from a Cuban vacation with a Read More

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Actors: Gloria Jean, Jimmy Lydon, John Hubbard, Frances Rafferty

Synopsis: The combination of star Gloria Jean and director Arthur Dreifuss resulted in several pleasant if unmemorable late-1940s musicals. In An Old-Fashioned Girl, Jean is cast as Polly Milton, the poor relation of a prosperous 19th-century Boston family. Rather than accept financial support from her Read More

Winter Wonderland

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Charles Drake, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Though Republic's Winter Wonderland sounds like a vehicle for the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston, she's nowhere to be seen in this 71-minute comedy. Instead, Lynne Roberts plays heroine Nancy Wheeler, the daughter of a farmer (Roman Bohnen) whose property is in close proximity Read More

The Unfinished Dance

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Cyd Charisse, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Danny Thomas, Esther Dale

Synopsis: An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another dancer is chosen, causing the determined twinkle-toes to cause a little accident to destroy the usurper's career. It works and the hapless ballerina's career is destroyed. Read More

And Now Tomorrow

Actors: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has had a life-long anger towards the town's wealthiest family. When the daughter of this family comes in for treatment, he finds himself faced with a dilemma. A bout with Read More

Mister Big

Actors: Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Robert Paige, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to the school's proprietor that they should be doing more than just the classics. The kids are more interested in performing swing-type entertainment. When the owner takes a Read More

Honeymoon Lodge

Actors: David Bruce, June Vincent, Rod Cameron, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Read More

Girls' Town

Actors: Edith Fellows, June Storey, Ken Howell, Alice White, Anna Q. Nilsson

Synopsis: In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step upon the people who love her the most. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More