TV legend Elinor Donahue
She's 85 now, but she's one of the few adults from the Golden Age of television still around.
She was Andy Griffith's girlfriend, the pharmacist Ellie Walker, but Dataloungers probably remember best as Betty "Princess" Anderson on "Father Knows Best," who on one hand could say pretentious things like "Father, we'll be ever so excruciatingly late!" But could also throw down with the best of them, such as the episode where one of her friends disses her mother, she steely hisses back, ""Keep my mother's name out of your mouth, or I'll slap you like you've never been slapped before."
She deserves her own thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 22, 2022 3:39 AM
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She already had a great thread. Google it!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 22, 2022 2:10 AM
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It was a small part but I loved her in “Pretty Woman”.
And that was the gayest thing that I’ve said in a while.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 22, 2022 2:10 AM
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Um. Hello? The Odd Couple.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2022 2:11 AM
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Time to start a new one, Kitten. Go back to servicing your johns.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 22, 2022 2:14 AM
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I'm a fan. Father Knows Best is my absolute favorite of the 50s family sitcoms. I love the Andersons and Betty 'Princess' Anderson always had the time. Typical 50s TV teenage girl but she could read a bitch and she would only put up with Bud and Kathy/Kitten's foolishness to a point.
She also appeared several times in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, another one of my all time favorite shows, as Dr. Michaela Quinn's (Jane Seymour) sister.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 22, 2022 2:16 AM
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She got to play this lucky bitch on STTOS
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 22, 2022 2:17 AM
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She was married to producer Harry Ackerman.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 22, 2022 2:19 AM
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She did a Love Boat that sounds like it would be horrible but was one of my favorites. Elinor Donahue plays a daughter trying to keep her mother from getting married. Minnie Pearl(but not in character) played her mother and Arthur Godfrey played Minnie's beau. It was just one of the most gentle charming love stories I've seen on there.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 22, 2022 2:22 AM
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gentle...charming....with Arthur Godfrey??
Oh, please.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 22, 2022 2:24 AM
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R11 That is partly what was surprising he and cousin Minnie really underplayed it, compared to usual. I think it was his last tv role.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 22, 2022 2:26 AM
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She was a bitch, always flappin' her yap at Bud thinking she was sooo much better... 😠
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 22, 2022 2:28 AM
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"Keep my mother's name out of your filthy mouth, or I swear to God I will fuck you raw with my closed fist!!"
And then she went on to win the title of Homecoming Queen.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 22, 2022 2:31 AM
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She also appear on a little show you might have heard of, The Golden Girls.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 22, 2022 2:52 AM
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Oh dearing myself for the typo. Princess would NOT approve.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 22, 2022 2:52 AM
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She was Stefano DiMera's henchman, or rather henchwoman, Kate Honeycutt, for a couple of years in the mid 1980s.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 22, 2022 3:32 AM
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R18 And a judge on Y&R she married Victoria and Billy, who had a whole Father Knows Best homage thing going with their house.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 22, 2022 3:34 AM
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Don’t forget her in “Metamorphosis,” one of the best episodes of the original STAR TREK TV series. Cast opposite hunky, blue-eyed Glenn Corbett, she gave one of her best performances and looked absolutely beautiful while giving it. It’s also one of the best love stories (with a sci-fi twist) that series ever did.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 22, 2022 3:39 AM
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