The best Elinor Donahue’s drama 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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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...

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/10/1959
  • Character: Lora's Friend
Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.

Girls Town

Girls Town
3.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1959
  • Character: Mary Lee Morgan
Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.

Tenth Avenue Angel

Tenth Avenue Angel
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/02/1948
  • Character: Cynthia (uncredited)
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within
7/10
Michaela and Sully travel by train to Boston with their children Brian and Katie to be at Colleen's graduation. Upon arriving they find that Michaela's mother just about to be released from the hospital but instructed that she needs complete bedrest. Colleen must face the fact that a woman doctor will not be welcomed at any Boston medical office. Brian gets a job while everyone is busy with Colleen's graduation and his Grandmother's failing health.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1950
  • Character: Mary (uncredited)
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

Doctors' Private Lives

Doctors' Private Lives
5.9/10
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

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.

And Now Tomorrow

And Now Tomorrow
6.8/10
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?

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