Jeff Donnell

DOB: 1921-07-10

DOD: 1988-04-11

Jeff Donnell 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Starred In

1953
Movie

The Blue Gardenia

1942
Movie

My Sister Eileen

1946
Movie

Night Editor

1950
Movie

In a Lonely Place

1946
Movie

The Unknown

1946
Movie

The Phantom Thief

1945
Movie

Over 21

1949
Movie

Easy Living

1963
Movie

The Iron Maiden

1949
Movie

Roughshod

1979
Movie

Rendezvous Hotel

1952
Movie

Thief of Damascus

1944
Movie

Carolina Blues

1952
Movie

The First Time

1953
Movie

So This Is Love

1953
Movie

Flight Nurse

1957
Movie

My Man Godfrey

1954
Movie

Massacre Canyon

1950
Movie

Hoedown

1957
Movie

Destination 60,000

1944
Movie

3 Is a Family

1949
Movie

Stagecoach Kid

1952
Movie

Skirts Ahoy!

1944
Movie

Stars on Parade

1946
Movie

Cowboy Blues

1945
Movie

Eadie Was a Lady

1961
Movie

Force of Impulse

1944
Movie

Nine Girls

1946
Movie

Tars and Spars

1950
Movie

Big Timber

1964
Movie

Bristle Face

1970
Movie

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1977
Movie

Spider-Man

1969
Movie

The Comic

1971
Movie

Love Hate Love

1973
Movie

A Gift of Terror

1954
Movie

Meet the O'Briens

1961
Tv

Mister Ed

1965
Tv

Gidget

1965
Tv

The F.B.I.

1952
Tv

Omnibus

1957
Tv

Perry Mason

1971
Tv

Cannon

1966
Tv

Felony Squad

1973
Tv

Police Story

1964
Tv

Daniel Boone

1954
Tv

Climax!

1951
Tv

Racket Squad

1961
Tv

Dr. Kildare

1974
Tv

Paper Moon

1975
Tv

Matt Helm

1965
Tv

The F.B.I.

1968
Tv

Adam-12

1957
Tv

Perry Mason

1972
Tv

Emergency!

1973
Tv

Barnaby Jones

1976
Tv

Gibbsville

1954
Tv

Studio 57