Jeff Donnell
Acting
🎂 1921-07-10
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(111)
Self
1962
Clara Hackler
1972
Mrs. Hutton
1969
Mrs. Gellar
1969
1955
Rooming House Manager
1965
Mrs. Kraft
1965
Janet Gossett
1973
Evelyn Driscoll
1961
1971
Helen
1952
Nurse Klein
1969
Sylvia Dykes
1957
Rose Carol
1957
Varna Montgomery
1964
Doris
1952
1966
Cleaning Woman
1969
Mrs. Hersey
1969
Self
1956
Eleanor Digby
1964
1951
Katie
1972
1954
1973
Martha Harper
1961
Kay Matheson
1954
Millie Moon
1959
Self
1954
Elaine
1967
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
1970
Ethel
1975
Mrs. James Nelson
1968
1965
Mrs. Carson
1974
Mrs. Jarkey
1954
1951
1972
1976
1973
Aunt Patti
1973
Ann Rutledge
1952
Mrs. Monahan
1970
Pug
1951
Marlene
1951
Cornelia
1970
Sally
1957
Sylvia Nicolai
1950
Aunt May Parker
1977
Sally Ellis
1953
Dorothy Lawrence
1961
Harem Girl
1945
Mary Wheller
1957
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1944
Anne Carstairs
1942
Molly
1957
Nurse
1969
Penny McCarr
1949
Miriam Fisher
1963
Jane Bixby
1950
Jan Lupton
1945
Gwen
1950
Elaine Wyatt
1949
Frances 'Francie' Lane
1945
Sheherazade
1952
Winnie Slade
1942
Nina Arnold
1946
Giff
1952
Mrs. Lawrence
1963
Henrietta Van Dyke
1953
Ruth
1972
Mary Brooks
1944
Mary Blunden
1971
Martha Cochrane
1946
Patty Ware
1952
Mrs. Mathews
1979
Lt. Ann Phillips
1953
Helen Loomis
1942
Miss Miller
1947
Jessie Arnold
1949
Cora
1954
Edith Sterling
1979
Donna Gilbert
1952
Hazel Whittaker
1944
Anne Parks Duncan
1946
Vinnie White
1949
Alice Raymend
1951
Judy Lane
1946
Sally
1950
Rose
1971
Charlotte Barton
1944
Cindy Brown
1946
Jean Burton
1943
"Butch" Hendricks
1944
April Shaughnessy
1949
Vera Wright
1950
Mrs. Jarkey
1964
Susan Nelson
1946
Jean Warren
1946
Peggy McDougal
1946
Julie Wescott
1950
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1945
Georgia Johnson
1946
Ruth Buckley
1957
Mrs. Cummings
1973
Louise Reese
1961
Julie
1956
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945
Molly Callahan
1943
Julie Connors
1944
Mrs. Williams
1979