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Donna Corcoran

Actor

Donna Corcoran

Born September 29, 19428 films

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Donna Corcoran, (born September 29, 1942) is a former child actress who appeared in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s. She most notably appeared in several aquatic musicals that featured Esther Williams (playing swimmer Annette Kellerman as a child in one of them),and as a vulnerable girl being victimized by an emotionally disturbed babysitter (played by Marilyn Monroe) in a more serious drama.

After making her last film in 1955, she made a token comeback as a young adult in an episode of the long-running television sit-com My Three Sons (starring Fred MacMurray) in the early 1960s before finally leaving acting altogether.

Corcoran was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to William "Bill" Corcoran, Sr. (1905–1958) and the former Kathleen McKenney (1917–1972). Several of her siblings were also child stars, including younger sister Noreen Corcoran, who played Kelly Gregg on John Forsythe's Bachelor Father (CBS, NBC, and ABC). Two younger brothers also went into acting: Kevin Anthony Corcoran, a star of various Walt Disney films and later a director and producer, and Kelly Corcoran (1958–2002), as a child star, appeared in the Barry Sullivan western series The Road West (1966–1968). Another brother, Brian Corcoran, also worked in television as a youth.

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Don't Bother to Knock posterFirst watchDon't Bother to Knock19526.6as Bunny JonesAn airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.View film

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Filmography

8 films as actor
  1. 1955MoonfleetGrace
  2. 1954Gypsy ColtMeg MacWade
  3. 1953Dangerous When WetJunior Higgins
  4. 1953Scandal at ScouriePatsy
  5. 1952Million Dollar MermaidTen-Year-Old Annette
  6. 1952Don't Bother to KnockBunny Jones
  7. 1952Young Man with IdeasCaroline Webster
  8. 1951Angels in the OutfieldBridget White