Jeff Donnell
ActingAlso Known As
Jean Marie Donnell
Biography
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.
Movies
(68 total)
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
TV Shows
(46 total)
The Addams Family
as Eleanor Digby
Perry Mason
as Sylvia Dykes
Perry Mason
as Rose Carol
The Bob Newhart Show
as Clara Hackler
Mister Ed
as Martha Harper
Emergency!
as Katie
Adam-12
as Mrs. James Nelson
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mrs. Jarkey
Daniel Boone
as Varna Montgomery
The Partridge Family
as Mrs. Monahan
Barnaby Jones
as Janet Gossett
The F.B.I.
as Rooming House Manager
The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Kraft
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Cleaning Woman
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Hutton
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Gellar
Dr. Kildare
as Evelyn Driscoll
