Jeff Donnell
Acting
Born July 10, 1921 · Windham, Maine, USA
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.
Films (68)
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
Spider-Man
1977
A Gift of Terror
1973
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971
Love Hate Love
1971
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Comic
1969
Bristle Face
1964
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963
The Iron Maiden
1963
Force of Impulse
1961
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
My Man Godfrey
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Destination 60,000
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
Meet the O'Briens
1954
Massacre Canyon
1954
Flight Nurse
1953
So This Is Love
1953
The Blue Gardenia
1953
Because You're Mine
1952
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
Thief of Damascus
1952
The First Time
1952
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
Big Timber
1950
Hoedown
1950
In a Lonely Place
1950
Easy Living
1949
Post Office Investigator
1949
Outcasts of the Trail
1949
Stagecoach Kid
1949
Roughshod
1949
Mr. District Attorney
1947
It's Great to Be Young
1946
Singing on the Trail
1946
Cowboy Blues
1946
The Unknown
1946
That Texas Jamboree
1946
The Phantom Thief
1946
Night Editor
1946
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
Tars and Spars
1946
Song of the Prairie
1945
Over 21
1945
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
The Power of the Whistler
1945
Eadie Was a Lady
1945
Carolina Blues
1944
Dancing in Manhattan
1944
3 Is a Family
1944
She's a Soldier Too
1944
Stars on Parade
1944
Nine Girls
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Doughboys in Ireland
1943
A Night to Remember
1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
My Sister Eileen
1942