The best Elinor Donahue’s comedy movies

Elinor Donahue

Elinor Donahue

19/04/1937 (87 años)
Today we present the best Elinor Donahue’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Elinor Donahue’s movies.
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Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman
7.1/10
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
5.8/10
Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Her best friend Lilly also joins her for the summer. Mia continues her 'princess lessons'- riding horses side-saddle, archery, and other royal. But her complicated life is turned upside down once again when she not only learns that she is to take the crown as queen earlier than expected...

High School U.S.A.

High School U.S.A.
5.5/10
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.

Mister Big

Mister Big
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/05/1943
  • Character: Muggsy
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.

Honeymoon Lodge

Honeymoon Lodge
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/07/1943
  • Character: Janie Thomas
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 Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.

In Name Only

In Name Only
5.9/10
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.

The Happy Years

The Happy Years
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/07/1950
  • Character: Connie Brown
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

Love Is Better Than Ever

Love Is Better Than Ever
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/02/1952
  • Character: Pattie Marie Levoy
The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him...

The Unfinished Dance

The Unfinished Dance
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 19/09/1947
  • Character: Josie (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.

An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1949
  • Character: Maud Shaw (as Mary Eleanor Donahue)
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.

The Father Knows Best Reunion

The Father Knows Best Reunion
7.7/10
First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Get a Life

Get a Life
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1990
  • Character: Gladys Peterson
Chris Peterson is a 30-year-old man who has never grown up. This is evident in his lack of ambition, the fact that he's living over his parents' garage, and maybe most apparent in his job as a paperboy. Hilarity ensues as Chris interacts with his family and friends while trying to avoid as much responsibility as possible.

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