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