Jeff Donnell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 10 July 1921 · Windham, Maine, USA
- Died
- 11 April 1988
Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in South Windham, Maine. As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama. She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942 and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen. She later had roles in some RKO films. She was not a major star, but she did have a lengthy film and television career in various supporting roles, including the role of Gidget's mother, "Dorothy Lawrence", opposite Carl Reiner in the 1961 movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
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- 1979Portrait of a Stripper as Edith Sterling
- 1979Rendezvous Hotel as Mrs. Williams
- 1979Murder by Natural Causes as Mrs. Mathews
- 1977Spider-Man as Aunt May Parker
- 1973A Gift of Terror as Mrs. Cummings
- 1972Stand Up and Be Counted as Ruth
- 1971Congratulations, It's a Boy! as Rose
- 1971Love Hate Love as Mary Blunden
- 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! as Cornelia
- 1969The Comic as Nurse
- 1964Bristle Face as Mrs. Jarkey
- 1963Gidget Goes to Rome as Mrs. Lawrence
- 1963The Iron Maiden as Miriam Fisher
- 1961Force of Impulse as Louise Reese
- 1961Gidget Goes Hawaiian as Dorothy Lawrence
- 1957My Man Godfrey as Molly
- 1957Sweet Smell of Success as Sally
- 1957Destination 60,000 as Ruth Buckley
- 1957The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Mary Wheller
- 1956Sincerely, Willis Wade as Sylvia
- 1956Magnificent Roughnecks as Julie
- 1954Meet the O'Briens as Nancy
- 1954Massacre Canyon as Cora
- 1953Flight Nurse as Lt. Ann Phillips
- 1953So This Is Love as Henrietta Van Dyke
- 1953The Blue Gardenia as Sally Ellis
- 1952Because You're Mine as Patty Ware
- 1952Skirts Ahoy! as Giff
- 1952Thief of Damascus as Sheherazade
- 1952The First Time as Donna Gilbert
- 1951Three Guys Named Mike as Alice Raymend
- 1950Walk Softly, Stranger as Gwen
- 1950Redwood Forest Trail as Julie Wescott
- 1950The Fuller Brush Girl as Jane Bixby
- 1950Big Timber as Sally
- 1950Hoedown as Vera Wright
- 1950In a Lonely Place as Sylvia Nicolai
- 1949Easy Living as Penny McCarr
- 1949Post Office Investigator as April Shaughnessy
- 1949Outcasts of the Trail as Vinnie White
- 1949Stagecoach Kid as Jessie Arnold
- 1949Roughshod as Elaine Wyatt
- 1947Mr. District Attorney as Miss Miller
- 1946It's Great to Be Young as Georgia Johnson
- 1946Singing on the Trail as Cindy Brown
- 1946Cowboy Blues as Susan Nelson
- 1946The Unknown as Nina Arnold
- 1946That Texas Jamboree as Jean Warren
- 1946The Phantom Thief as Anne Parks Duncan
- 1946Night Editor as Martha Cochrane
- 1946Throw a Saddle on a Star as Judy Lane
- 1946Tars and Spars as Peggy McDougal
- 1945Song of the Prairie as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
- 1945Over 21 as Jan Lupton
- 1945A Thousand and One Nights as Harem Girl
- 1945The Power of the Whistler as Frances 'Francie' Lane
- 1945Eadie Was a Lady as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
- 1944Carolina Blues as Charlotte Barton
- 1944Dancing in Manhattan as Julie Connors
- 19443 Is a Family as Hazel Whittaker
- 1944Mr. Winkle Goes to War
- 1944She's a Soldier Too as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
- 1944Stars on Parade as Mary Brooks
- 1944Nine Girls as "Butch" Hendricks
- 1943There's Something About a Soldier as Jean Burton
- 1943Doughboys in Ireland as Molly Callahan
- 1942A Night to Remember as Anne Carstairs
- 1942The Boogie Man Will Get You as Winnie Slade
- 1942My Sister Eileen as Helen Loomis