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