
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.
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Acting (64 movies)

Sweet Smell of Success
1957

The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942

The Blue Gardenia
1953

Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961

My Sister Eileen
1942

Night Editor
1946

The Power of the Whistler
1945

In a Lonely Place
1950

The Unknown
1946

A Night to Remember
1942

The Fuller Brush Girl
1950

The Phantom Thief
1946

Walk Softly, Stranger
1950

Over 21
1945

Easy Living
1949

The Iron Maiden
1963

Roughshod
1949

Three Guys Named Mike
1951

Mr. District Attorney
1947

Post Office Investigator
1949

Song of the Prairie
1945

Thief of Damascus
1952

Carolina Blues
1944

The First Time
1952

So This Is Love
1953

There's Something About a Soldier
1943

Flight Nurse
1953

My Man Godfrey
1957

Massacre Canyon
1954

Redwood Forest Trail
1950

That Texas Jamboree
1946

Hoedown
1950

Portrait of a Stripper
1979

Singing on the Trail
1946

Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946

The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957

3 Is a Family
1944

Dancing in Manhattan
1944

She's a Soldier Too
1944

Doughboys in Ireland
1943

Stagecoach Kid
1949

Skirts Ahoy!
1952

Stars on Parade
1944

Cowboy Blues
1946

Outcasts of the Trail
1949

Eadie Was a Lady
1945

Force of Impulse
1961

Nine Girls
1944

Stand Up and Be Counted
1972

Tars and Spars
1946

Gidget Goes to Rome
1963

Big Timber
1950

Bristle Face
1964

Murder by Natural Causes
1979

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

Spider-Man
1977

A Thousand and One Nights
1945

The Comic
1969

Magnificent Roughnecks
1956

Love Hate Love
1971

Because You're Mine
1952

Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971

A Gift of Terror
1973

Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956
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