Donna Corcoran (born September 29, 1942) is an American former child
actress who appeared in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s.
She most notably appeared in two 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, Don't Bother to Knock.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
Henry Corcoran, Sr. (1905â€"1958) and the former Kathleen H. McKenney
(1917â€"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 (1958â€"2002), as a child star, appeared in the Barry
Sullivan western series The Road West (1966â€"1968). Another brother,
Brian Corcoran, also worked in television as a youth.Corcoran married
Luis Felipe Guerrero Newman, a rancher, in 1961; they had two
daughters and later divorced. She married mining engineer Jerry Keene
in 1981, and they remained wed until his death in 2017.
actress who appeared in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s.
She most notably appeared in two 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, Don't Bother to Knock.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
Henry Corcoran, Sr. (1905â€"1958) and the former Kathleen H. McKenney
(1917â€"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 (1958â€"2002), as a child star, appeared in the Barry
Sullivan western series The Road West (1966â€"1968). Another brother,
Brian Corcoran, also worked in television as a youth.Corcoran married
Luis Felipe Guerrero Newman, a rancher, in 1961; they had two
daughters and later divorced. She married mining engineer Jerry Keene
in 1981, and they remained wed until his death in 2017.
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