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