39 Dorothy McGuire Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The Nolans manage to live life to the fullest, despite the fact that they are living in poverty. Their daughter Francie, decides that she is going to make it big in her life, with the help of her mother and her alcoholic father.

Friendly Persuasion is a Western war drama film which revolves around the Quaker family in 1862. Since their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war, they have always held a pacifist attitude. However, with the arrival of the Southern troops during the American Civil War, they find themselves in real trouble, and their pacifism is tested. 

The Spiral Staircase is an American psychological horror film which revolves around a mute young woman named Helen living in 1906 Vermont, who is employed as a live-in companion for a bedridden woman named Mrs Warren. Her life turns upside down when she finds herself terrorized by a serial killer who has been targeting disabled women.  

Travis finds a stray dog while working on the cornfields and tries to chase it away. However, when the dog protects Arliss, Travis’s brother, from a black bear by scaring it away, he starts to win the affection of the family.

Philip Green is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son and his mother. When a magazine publisher asks him to write an article on antisemitism, he doesn’t show much interest initially, but soon, he gets inspired to adopt a Jewish identity, so that he can write about his first-hand experiences.

Based on the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson, this adventure film tells the story of a Swiss family, a father, mother and three sons, who are relocating to a colony in New Guinea. However, they are chased by pirates and soon, their ship faces a storm, after which the crew abandons it, leaving the family on board. They soon find themselves shipwrecked on a deserted island, after the ship is destroyed.    

Based on a 1957 Broadway play, the film follows the life of an out of work traveling salesman, his frigid wife and two children. Because he cannot bring himself to tell his wife that he has lost his job he behaves strangely, which leads to accusation and counter accusation, making him storm out of the house to go to a local widow’s beauty salon and fall asleep on her sofa. 

The movie, based on Niven Busch‘s novel They Dream of Home, has three war veterans return home post WWII. However, it is hard for them to lead a normal civilian life. Cliff Harper struggles with his job plans and relationship with a war widow while his friend Bill Tabeshaw has metal plate in his skull. Then there is Perry Kimcheloe who has lost both legs but rejects the use of artificial legs.

Based on a true story Mister 880, tells the tale of a man who, for a decade, manages to counterfeit $1 bills on his old-fashioned hand press without getting caught. However, he is neither greedy nor an expert at his work. He only prints as much as he needs to sustain himself. Eventually, he is caught by Burt Lancaster, a determined treasury agent.

In racially segregated America, Angel Chavez, a Mexican-American ends up on a beach which is off-limit to Mexican-Americans. There a non-Hispanic schoolmate who suffers from a weak heart suddenly dies, in front of him. Wrongly accused of attempted rape and murder, he is defended by law professor, David Blak,e while others try to use him for political gains. 

Two siblings decide to run away after many years of receiving abuse from their uncle Toby, who is also their stepfather. They flee to Ireland to find their grandmother, but are unaware of the fact that they are heirs to their grandfather’s estate, and also stand to inherit a large fortune. When their uncle learns about this, he wants to make sure the children are never seen again.     

I Want You is an American drama film, which tells the story of an American small businessman who writes a letter to a World War II veteran, requesting that his son George is not drafted into the Korean War, so that he is able to continue working for his family’s company. 

This Western drama film tells us the story of two smart marketing executives who hire a cowboy to impersonate a fading star for public appearances. However, things get quite messy when the real star shows up as well. 

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a historical drama film which revolves around the life and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, presented in two parts.  

The story centers on a California winemaking dynasty, struggling to survive during Prohibition. At the centre is Elizabeth Rambeau, who arrives at her grandfather’s winery in Napa Valley to find that he has arranged her marriage to another vineyard owner, belonging to a separate branch of the family. However, her cousin John has other ideas. 

Susan Slade, the 17 year old daughter of Roger and Leah Slade, becomes pregnant with Conn White’s child. When Conn dies in an accident, the Slades decide to pretend that the baby is Leah’s to protect Susan from scandal. But keeping up lies proves to be difficult when two men, Hoyt and Wells vie for her attention. 

Make Haste to Live is a suspense drama film which tells the story of Steve Blackford, a mobster who spends eighteen years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. Eventually, he is paroled, and he heads to a town in New Mexico, hoping to take revenge against his former wife, who is responsible for his conviction.