Dorothy McGuire was an American actress who became famous for her role in movies such as 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ and ‘Swiss Family Robinson’. She acted in more than forty films for the big screen and the television during her entire acting career that stretched from 1943 to 1990. She showed exemplary sincerity, dignity and practicality in almost all the roles she enacted in the films and possibly had more talent than Hollywood required from its leading ladies. She was open-hearted and had a soothing quality as well as a certain knack in bringing tears to the eyes of the audience through her performances. She won her roles on the basis of her acting talent. In spite of superlative acting during her career spanning more than five decades, she did not win the number of awards as was expected during the period she held sway over her audience. Her quiet passive beauty and her poise and style had left a permanent imprint in Hollywood’s annals of the ‘Golden Era’ and she will remain forever etched in the minds of the cinema-goers of all time.