Jeff Donnell
Biography
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
Sally
Sweet Smell of Success
Winnie Slade
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Sally Ellis
The Blue Gardenia
Dorothy Lawrence
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Helen Loomis
My Sister Eileen
Martha Cochrane
Night Editor
Frances 'Francie' Lane
The Power of the Whistler
Sylvia Nicolai
In a Lonely Place
Nina Arnold
The Unknown
Anne Carstairs
A Night to Remember
Jane Bixby
The Fuller Brush Girl
Anne Parks Duncan
The Phantom Thief
Gwen
Walk Softly, Stranger
Jan Lupton
Over 21
Penny McCarr
Easy Living
Miriam Fisher
The Iron Maiden
Elaine Wyatt
Roughshod
Mrs. Williams
Rendezvous Hotel
Alice Raymend
Three Guys Named Mike
Miss Miller
Mr. District Attorney
April Shaughnessy
Post Office Investigator
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Song of the Prairie
Sheherazade
Thief of Damascus
Charlotte Barton
Carolina Blues
Donna Gilbert
The First Time
Henrietta Van Dyke
So This Is Love
Jean Burton
There's Something About a Soldier
Lt. Ann Phillips
Flight Nurse
Molly
My Man Godfrey
Cora
Massacre Canyon
Julie Wescott
Redwood Forest Trail
Jean Warren
That Texas Jamboree
Vera Wright
Hoedown
Edith Sterling
Portrait of a Stripper
Cindy Brown
Singing on the Trail
Judy Lane
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Mary Wheller
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Ruth Buckley
Destination 60,000
Hazel Whittaker
3 Is a Family
Julie Connors
Dancing in Manhattan
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
She's a Soldier Too
Molly Callahan
Doughboys in Ireland
Jessie Arnold
Stagecoach Kid
Giff
Skirts Ahoy!
Mary Brooks
Stars on Parade
Susan Nelson
Cowboy Blues
Vinnie White
Outcasts of the Trail
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Eadie Was a Lady
Louise Reese
Force of Impulse
"Butch" Hendricks
Nine Girls
Ruth
Stand Up and Be Counted
Peggy McDougal
Tars and Spars
Mrs. Lawrence
Gidget Goes to Rome
Sally
Big Timber
Mrs. Jarkey
Bristle Face
Mrs. Mathews
Murder by Natural Causes
Cornelia
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Aunt May Parker
Spider-Man
Harem Girl
A Thousand and One Nights
Georgia Johnson
It's Great to Be Young
Nurse
The Comic
Julie
Magnificent Roughnecks
Mary Blunden
Love Hate Love
Patty Ware
Because You're Mine
Rose
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Mrs. Cummings
A Gift of Terror
Meet the O'Briens
Sylvia
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
68
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-07-10
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Also Known As
Jean Marie Donnell