Donna Corcoran (Actor)

Reviews of Donna Corcoran Movies

Looking for reviews of Donna Corcoran movies? Cinafilm has a total of 134 reviews across 5 movies.

Movies starring Donna Corcoran have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.

Angels in the Outfield - released in 1951 - is Donna Corcoran's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Donna Corcoran is Million Dollar Mermaid - released in 1952 - with a score of 62% based on 21 reviews.

Actor Biography

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.

Donna Corcoran has acted in films with Richard Hale, Willis Bouchey, Frank Ferguson and Harold Miller.

Donna Corcoran has worked with these film directors: Fritz Lang, Andrew Marton, Clarence Brown and Mervyn LeRoy.