Jeff Donnell

Acting

Born Jul 10, 1921

From Windham, Maine, USA

Died Apr 11, 1988

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.

Jeff Donnell

Known For

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Spider-Man

In a Lonely Place

Sweet Smell of Success

Stand Up and Be Counted

The Comic

The Blue Gardenia

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Roughshod

The Iron Maiden

Filmography — Acting

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Spider-Man

In a Lonely Place

Sweet Smell of Success

Stand Up and Be Counted

The Comic

The Blue Gardenia

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Roughshod

The Iron Maiden

Walk Softly, Stranger

Gidget Goes to Rome

My Man Godfrey

My Sister Eileen

Easy Living

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

A Thousand and One Nights

The Power of the Whistler

Over 21

Three Guys Named Mike

Murder by Natural Causes

Portrait of a Stripper

So This Is Love

Skirts Ahoy!

The Phantom Thief

A Night to Remember

Nine Girls

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

Bristle Face

Singing on the Trail

The Fuller Brush Girl

Big Timber

3 Is a Family

The Unknown

Tars and Spars

Night Editor

The Boogie Man Will Get You

There's Something About a Soldier

Love Hate Love

Massacre Canyon

Because You're Mine

Throw a Saddle on a Star

Mr. District Attorney

Song of the Prairie

Flight Nurse

Cowboy Blues

A Gift of Terror

Magnificent Roughnecks

That Texas Jamboree

Thief of Damascus

Outcasts of the Trail

Dancing in Manhattan

Hoedown

The First Time

Redwood Forest Trail

It's Great to Be Young

Stagecoach Kid

Carolina Blues

Eadie Was a Lady

Rendezvous Hotel

Doughboys in Ireland

She's a Soldier Too

Stars on Parade

Destination 60,000

Post Office Investigator

Force of Impulse