Acting
Jeff Donnell
EN, PT cinema · 69 credits
Born
10 July 1921
Died
11 April 1988 (aged 66)
Birthplace
Windham, Maine, USA
Also known as Jean Marie Donnell
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.
Known for
Filmography
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
Rendezvous Hotel
as Mrs. Williams
Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
The Comic
as Nurse
Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
Destination 60,000
1957
Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia
Massacre Canyon
as Cora
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
Hoedown
as Vera Wright
Big Timber
as Sally
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
It's Great to Be Young
1946
It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
Over 21
as Jan Lupton
Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs