Jeff Donnell
Acting
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Jeff Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) 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.
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Jeff Donnell
Mrs. Mathews
... 1979
Aunt May Parker
... 1977
Mrs. Cummings
... 1973
... 1972
... 1971
Mary Blunden
... 1971
Cornelia
... 1970
Nurse
... 1969
Mrs. Jarkey
... 1964
Mrs. Lawrence
... 1963
Miriam Fisher
... 1963
Louise Reese
... 1961
Dorothy Lawrence
... 1961
Molly
... 1957
Sally
... 1957
Ruth Buckley
... 1957
Mary Wheller
... 1957
Julie
... 1956
Cora
... 1954
Lt. Ann Phillips
... 1953
Henrietta Van Dyke
... 1953
Sally Ellis
... 1953
Patty Ware
... 1952
Giff
... 1952
Sheherazade
... 1952
Donna Gilbert
... 1952
Alice Raymend
... 1951
... 1950
Julie Wescott
... 1950
Jane Bixby
... 1950
Sally
... 1950
Vera Wright
... 1950
Sylvia Nicolai
... 1950
Penny McCarr
... 1949
April Shaughnessy
... 1949
Vinnie White
... 1949
Jessie Arnold
... 1949
Elaine Wyatt
... 1949
Miss Miller
... 1947
Georgia Johnson
... 1946
Cindy Brown
... 1946
Susan Nelson
... 1946
Nina Arnold
... 1946
Jean Warren
... 1946
Anne Parks Duncan
... 1946
Martha Cochrane
... 1946
Judy Lane
... 1946
Peggy McDougal
... 1946
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
... 1945
Jan Lupton
... 1945
Harem Girl
... 1945
Frances 'Francie' Lane
... 1945
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
... 1945
Charlotte Barton
... 1944
Julie Connors
... 1944
Hazel Whittaker
... 1944
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
... 1944
Mary Brooks
... 1944
"Butch" Hendricks
... 1944
Jean Burton
... 1943
Molly Callahan
... 1943
Anne Stafford Carstairs
... 1942
Winnie Slade
... 1942
Helen Loomis
... 1942