Up for auction "Susan Slade" Dorothy McGuire Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is certified authentic by Autograph World and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly Persuasion (1956). Born in Omaha, Nebraska,^[2] McGuire was the only child of Thomas Johnson McGuire and Isabelle Flaherty McGuire.^[3] She made her stage debut at the age of 13 at the local community playhouse in Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella. Her co-star was Henry Fonda, who was also born in Nebraska and was making a return visit to his home town after becoming a success on Broadway. After her father's death, McGuire attended a convent school in Indianapolis, Indiana. She later attended Pine Manor Junior College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, serving as president of that school's drama club. She graduated from Pine Manor when she was 19. She appeared in summer stock at Deertrees, Maine, in 1937 before going to New York. She acted on radio, playing Sue in the serial Big Sister (1937) and took part in an experimental television broadcast, The Mysterious Mummy Case (1938). She was hired by producer Jed Harris to understudy the ingenue in a Broadway play, Stop Over (1938), which ran only 23 performances. She was then understudy to Martha Scott in Our Town in 1938. She eventually took over Scott's role. She toured in My Dear Children opposite John Barrymore and, in 1939, was in a revue with Benny Goodman, Swingin' the Dream. She had a role in the short lived Medicine Show (1940), and a part in the longer running revival of Kind Lady (1940). McGuire appeared in some TV movies, She Waits (1972) and a PBS adaptation of Another Part of the Forest (1972). She provided voice work for Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) and made one final appearance on Broadway in a revival of The Night of the Iguana (1976-77) alongside Richard Chamberlain. However most of McGuire's later career work was for the small screen: The Runaways (1975), Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), the pilot for Little Women (1976), The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979), Ghost Dancing (1983), Amos (1985), Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985), American Geisha (1986), Caroline? (1990) and The Last Best Year (1990). She was also in episodes of Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Love Boat, Glitter, St Elsewhere and Highway to Heaven. She provided the narration for Summer Heat (1987) and toured in 1987 in I Never Sang for My Father.