Jeff Donnell
Biography
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-07-10
Place of birth
Windham, Maine, USA
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Cast
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
7.60
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
6.30
The Blue Gardenia
1953
6.55
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
4.63
My Sister Eileen
1942
6.70
Night Editor
1946
5.60
The Power of the Whistler
1945
5.80
In a Lonely Place
1950
7.60
The Unknown
1946
6.00
A Night to Remember
1942
6.50
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
6.00
The Phantom Thief
1946
5.30
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
5.00
Over 21
1945
5.25
Easy Living
1949
5.90
The Iron Maiden
1963
6.38
Roughshod
1949
5.30
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
0.00
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
5.71
Mr. District Attorney
1947
6.50
Post Office Investigator
1949
6.00
Song of the Prairie
1945
0.00
Thief of Damascus
1952
5.75
Carolina Blues
1944
5.30
The First Time
1952
6.50
So This Is Love
1953
4.50
Flight Nurse
1953
5.50
My Man Godfrey
1957
6.30
Massacre Canyon
1954
5.00
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
0.00
That Texas Jamboree
1946
0.00
Hoedown
1950
0.00
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
2.50
Singing on the Trail
1946
0.00
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
0.00
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
6.30
Destination 60,000
1957
0.00
3 Is a Family
1944
0.00
Dancing in Manhattan
1944
6.00
She's a Soldier Too
1944
3.00
Doughboys in Ireland
1943
0.00
Stagecoach Kid
1949
6.00
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
5.00
Stars on Parade
1944
0.00
Cowboy Blues
1946
0.00
Outcasts of the Trail
1949
0.00
Eadie Was a Lady
1945
4.00
Force of Impulse
1961
2.50
Nine Girls
1944
5.30
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
7.00
Tars and Spars
1946
4.70
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963
4.80
Big Timber
1950
0.00
Bristle Face
1964
0.00
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
6.90
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
7.10
Spider-Man
1977
6.30
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
5.70
It's Great to Be Young
1946
0.00
The Comic
1969
5.90
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
0.00
Love Hate Love
1971
5.80
Because You're Mine
1952
6.70
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971
6.00
A Gift of Terror
1973
0.00