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.