Donna Corcoran
{{short description|American former child actress|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Donna Corcoran
| image = Donna Corcoran in Scandal at Scourie.JPG
| caption = Corcoran in Scandal at Scourie (1953)
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|9|29|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
| yearsactive = 1951–1963
| spouse = Luis Felipe Guerrero Newman (m. 1961; div.)
Jerry Keene (m. 1981; died 2017)
| children = 2
| relatives = Noreen Corcoran (sister)
Kevin Corcoran (brother)
Kelly Corcoran (brother)
}}
Donna Corcoran (born September 29, 1942){{cite journal |last1=Stebick |first1=Thomas A. |title=The Corcoran Kids |journal=Classic Images |date=December 2019 |issue=534 |pages=7–15, 58–67}} is an American former child actress who appeared in nine Hollywood films from 1951 through 1955. She was in two aquatic musicals that featured Esther Williams (portraying swimmer Annette Kellerman as a child in one), and as a vulnerable girl being victimized by an emotionally disturbed babysitter (played by Marilyn Monroe) in Don't Bother to Knock.
After making her last film, she made a token comeback as a young adult in an episode of the long-running sitcom My Three Sons (starring Fred MacMurray) in the early 1960s.
Corcoran was born in Quincy, Massachusetts to William Henry Corcoran, Sr. and Kathleen H. McKenney. Several of her siblings were child stars, including younger sister Noreen Corcoran,{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Noreen Corcoran, the Adopted Niece on TV's 'Bachelor Father,' Dies at 72 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/noreen-corcoran-dead-bachelor-father-856390 |accessdate=1 June 2019 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 16, 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601140439/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/noreen-corcoran-dead-bachelor-father-856390 |archivedate=1 June 2019}} Kevin Anthony Corcoran, and Kelly Corcoran.
Personal life
Filmography
References
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Bibliography
- Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen (South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 45–49.
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- {{IMDb name|id=2076146}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American child actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Greater Los Angeles
Category:People from Quincy, Massachusetts
Category:21st-century American women
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