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