Jeff Donnell
69 movies · 39 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 10, 1921
- Died
- Apr 11, 1988 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Windham, Maine, USA
- Also known as
- Jean Marie 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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Known for
Jeff Donnell: movies and TV shows
Acting (108)
- 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
- 1976
- 1976
- 1975
- 1974
- 1973
- 1973 A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
- 1973
- 1973
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth
- 1972
- 1972
- 1971 Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose
- 1971
- 1971 Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
- 1970
- 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
- 1969 The Comic
as Nurse
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
- 1963 Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
- 1963 The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
- 1961 Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
- 1961
- 1961 Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959
- 1957 My Man Godfrey
as Molly
- 1957
- 1957 Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
- 1957 Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley
- 1957 The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
- 1956 Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia
- 1956 Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Meet the O'Briens
as Nancy
- 1954 Massacre Canyon
as Cora
- 1953 Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
- 1953 So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
- 1953 The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
- 1952
- 1952 Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
- 1952
- 1952 Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
- 1952 Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
- 1952 The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
- 1950 Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
- 1950 Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
- 1950 The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
- 1950 Big Timber
as Sally
- 1950 Hoedown
as Vera Wright
- 1950 In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
- 1949 Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
- 1949 Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
- 1949 Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
- 1949 Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
- 1949 Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
- 1947 Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
- 1946 It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson
- 1946 Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
- 1946 Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
- 1946 The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
- 1946 That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
- 1946 The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
- 1946 Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
- 1946 Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
- 1946 Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
- 1945 Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
- 1945 Over 21
as Jan Lupton
- 1945 A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
- 1945 The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
- 1945 Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
- 1944 Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
- 1944 Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
- 1944 3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
- 1944
- 1944 She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
- 1944 Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
- 1944 Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
- 1943 There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
- 1943 Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
- 1942 A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
- 1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
- 1942 My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
2 episodes
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1 episode
- 1954 The George Gobel Show
66 episodes
- 1952 Omnibus
1 episode