Jeff Donnell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-07-10
Day of Death
1988-04-11 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Jeff Donnell
Biography
Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress. Born Jean Marie Donnell, 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.
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Known For
Acting
(1979)
Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling
(1979)
Rendezvous Hotel
as Mrs. Williams
(1979)
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
(1977)
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
(1973)
A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
(1972)
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth
(1971)
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose
(1971)
Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
(1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
(1969)
The Comic
as Nurse
(1964)
Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
(1963)
The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
(1963)
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
(1961)
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
(1961)
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
(1957)
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
(1957)
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
(1957)
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
(1957)
Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley
(1956)
Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie
(1954)
Massacre Canyon
as Cora
(1953)
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
(1953)
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
(1953)
Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
(1952)
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
(1952)
Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
(1952)
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
(1952)
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
(1951)
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
(1950)
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
(1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
(1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
(1950)
Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
(1950)
Big Timber
as Sally
(1950)
Hoedown
as Vera Wright
(1949)
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
(1949)
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
(1949)
Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
(1949)
Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
(1949)
Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
(1947)
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
(1946)
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
(1946)
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
(1946)
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
(1946)
Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
(1946)
It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson
(1946)
Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
(1946)
Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
(1946)
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
(1946)
That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
(1945)
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
(1945)
Over 21
as Jan Lupton
(1945)
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
(1945)
Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
(1945)
Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
(1944)
She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
(1944)
Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
(1944)
Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
(1944)
3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
(1944)
Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
(1944)
Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
(1943)
There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
(1943)
Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
(1942)
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
(1942)
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
(1942)
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade