Jeff Donnell
Acting • Born 1921-07-10 – Died 1988-04-11
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.
Filmography
114 credits
Sweet Smell of Success
Movie • 1957
Sally
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Movie • 1942
Winnie Slade
The Blue Gardenia
Movie • 1953
Sally Ellis
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Movie • 1961
Dorothy Lawrence
My Sister Eileen
Movie • 1942
Helen Loomis
Night Editor
Movie • 1946
Martha Cochrane
The Power of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Frances 'Francie' Lane
In a Lonely Place
Movie • 1950
Sylvia Nicolai
The Unknown
Movie • 1946
Nina Arnold
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1942
Anne Carstairs
The Fuller Brush Girl
Movie • 1950
Jane Bixby
The Phantom Thief
Movie • 1946
Anne Parks Duncan
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie • 1950
Gwen
Over 21
Movie • 1945
Jan Lupton
Easy Living
Movie • 1949
Penny McCarr
The Iron Maiden
Movie • 1963
Miriam Fisher
Roughshod
Movie • 1949
Elaine Wyatt
Rendezvous Hotel
Movie • 1979
Mrs. Williams
Three Guys Named Mike
Movie • 1951
Alice Raymend
Mr. District Attorney
Movie • 1947
Miss Miller
Post Office Investigator
Movie • 1949
April Shaughnessy
Song of the Prairie
Movie • 1945
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Thief of Damascus
Movie • 1952
Sheherazade
Carolina Blues
Movie • 1944
Charlotte Barton
The First Time
Movie • 1952
Donna Gilbert
So This Is Love
Movie • 1953
Henrietta Van Dyke
There's Something About a Soldier
Movie • 1943
Jean Burton
Flight Nurse
Movie • 1953
Lt. Ann Phillips
My Man Godfrey
Movie • 1957
Molly
Massacre Canyon
Movie • 1954
Cora
Redwood Forest Trail
Movie • 1950
Julie Wescott
That Texas Jamboree
Movie • 1946
Jean Warren
Hoedown
Movie • 1950
Vera Wright
Portrait of a Stripper
Movie • 1979
Edith Sterling
Singing on the Trail
Movie • 1946
Cindy Brown
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Movie • 1946
Judy Lane
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Movie • 1957
Mary Wheller
Destination 60,000
Movie • 1957
Ruth Buckley
3 Is a Family
Movie • 1944
Hazel Whittaker
Dancing in Manhattan
Movie • 1944
Julie Connors
She's a Soldier Too
Movie • 1944
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Doughboys in Ireland
Movie • 1943
Molly Callahan
Stagecoach Kid
Movie • 1949
Jessie Arnold
Skirts Ahoy!
Movie • 1952
Giff
Stars on Parade
Movie • 1944
Mary Brooks
Cowboy Blues
Movie • 1946
Susan Nelson
Outcasts of the Trail
Movie • 1949
Vinnie White
Eadie Was a Lady
Movie • 1945
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Force of Impulse
Movie • 1961
Louise Reese
Nine Girls
Movie • 1944
"Butch" Hendricks
Stand Up and Be Counted
Movie • 1972
Ruth
Tars and Spars
Movie • 1946
Peggy McDougal
Gidget Goes to Rome
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Lawrence
Big Timber
Movie • 1950
Sally
Bristle Face
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Jarkey
Murder by Natural Causes
Movie • 1979
Mrs. Mathews
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Cornelia
Spider-Man
Movie • 1977
Aunt May Parker
A Thousand and One Nights
Movie • 1945
Harem Girl
It's Great to Be Young
Movie • 1946
Georgia Johnson
The Comic
Movie • 1969
Nurse
Magnificent Roughnecks
Movie • 1956
Julie
Love Hate Love
Movie • 1971
Mary Blunden
Because You're Mine
Movie • 1952
Patty Ware
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Movie • 1971
Rose
A Gift of Terror
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Cummings
Meet the O'Briens
Movie • 1954
Nancy
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Movie • 1956
Sylvia
Mister Ed
TV • 1961
Martha Harper
Gidget
TV • 1965
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Rooming House Manager
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Helen
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Sylvia Dykes
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Me and the Chimp
TV • 1972
The Girl with Something Extra
TV • 1973
Police Story
TV • 1973
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Varna Montgomery
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Pug
Climax!
TV • 1954
Kay Matheson
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The Addams Family
TV • 1964
Eleanor Digby
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Ann Rutledge
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Evelyn Driscoll
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Millie Moon
Paper Moon
TV • 1974
Mrs. Carson
Matt Helm
TV • 1975
Ethel
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Cleaning Woman
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Mrs. Kraft
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. James Nelson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Marlene
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Rose Carol
Here We Go Again
TV • 1973
Aunt Patti
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Katie
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Mrs. Hersey
The Mothers-in-Law
TV • 1967
Elaine
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Gibbsville
TV • 1976
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Janet Gossett
The Bob Newhart Show
TV • 1972
Clara Hackler
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Mrs. Monahan
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
Nurse Klein
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Mrs. Hutton
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Mrs. Gellar
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mrs. Jarkey
Studio 57
TV • 1954
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Doris
McNaughton's Daughter
TV • 1976
Mrs. Wilson
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
TV • 1972
Mrs. Cummings