Jeff Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) 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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Jeff Donnell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jeff Donnell |
| Also Know | Jean Marie Donnell |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Windham, Maine, U.S. |
| Date of Birth | 1921-07-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 66 |
| Deathday | 1988-04-11 |
Jeff Donnell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Dancing in Manhattan | Julie Connors | 1944-12-14 | In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not … |
| The Phantom Thief | Anne Parks Duncan | 1946-05-02 | Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and t… |
| That Texas Jamboree | Jean Warren | 1946-05-16 | With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his… |
| Hoedown | Vera Wright | 1950-06-01 | A movie cowboy scrambles to salvage his career after his latest movie turns out to be a flop…. |
| Singing on the Trail | Cindy Brown | 1946-09-01 | In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures’ low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio’s most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-l… |
| Doughboys in Ireland | Molly Callahan | 1943-10-07 | According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O’… |
| Cowboy Blues | Susan Nelson | 1946-07-18 | Starring Ken Curtis and the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots, this musical Western is really Lady for a Day with a switch in gender. Rotund… |
| Throw a Saddle on a Star | Judy Lane | 1946-03-14 | The “star” in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker to ride in the Big Rodeo. Unsc… |
| Big Timber | Sally | 1950-09-10 | A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bun… |
| Night Editor | Martha Cochrane | 1946-03-29 | A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall…. |
| The Power of the Whistler | Frances ‘Francie’ Lane | 1945-04-19 | A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on item… |
| The Unknown | Nina Arnold | 1946-07-04 | “The Unknown” was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inh… |
| A Night to Remember | Anne Stafford Carstairs | 1942-12-10 | A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to creat… |
| The Iron Maiden | Miriam Fisher | 1963-06-07 | The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) i… |
| Post Office Investigator | April Shaughnessy | 1949-09-01 | A mailman (Warren Douglas) leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief (Audrey Long) and her gang…. |
| Thief of Damascus | Sheherazade | 1952-04-01 | A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan…. |
| Redwood Forest Trail | Julie Wescott | 1950-09-18 | Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of “Alfalfa ” Switzer who plays one of the… |
| Stagecoach Kid | Jessie Arnold | 1949-06-02 | Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire … |
| Outcasts of the Trail | Vinnie White | 1949-06-08 | Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia Whit… |
| Tars and Spars | Peggy McDougal | 1946-01-10 | Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea d… |
| Bristle Face | Mrs. Jarkey | 1964-01-26 | In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to town with his hound dog and tries to teach him to hunt. B… |
| It’s Great to Be Young | Georgia Johnson | 1946-09-12 | Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.’s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter … |
| The Boogie Man Will Get You | Winnie Slade | 1942-10-22 | A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar…. |
| Over 21 | Jan Lupton | 1945-08-08 | A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army…. |
| Carolina Blues | Charlotte Barton | 1944-12-20 | When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can’t find a replacement he likes…. |
| The First Time | Donna Gilbert | 1952-01-31 | A married couple welcomes their first child…. |
| Flight Nurse | Lt. Ann Phillips | 1953-11-15 | In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines…. |
| The Guns of Fort Petticoat | Mary Wheller | 1957-04-01 | Opposing his commanding officer’s decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to… |
| Stars on Parade | Mary Brooks | 1944-05-25 | In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include “My Heart Isn’t in It”… |
| Eadie Was a Lady | Pamela ‘Pepper’ Parker | 1945-01-24 | In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But tro… |
| Force of Impulse | Louise Reese | 1961-11-01 | A high-school football player is in love with a beautiful blonde classmate from a very wealthy family. He doesn’t have the money to take her out, so i… |
| Nine Girls | “Butch” Hendricks | 1944-02-17 | One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on… |
| Magnificent Roughnecks | Julie | 1956-07-22 | Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America…. |
| The Blue Gardenia | Sally Ellis | 1953-03-20 | Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah’s … |
| The Fuller Brush Girl | Jane Bixby | 1950-09-15 | A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation…. |
| Roughshod | Elaine Wyatt | 1949-05-11 | Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him b… |
| Song of the Prairie | Penelope ‘Penny’ Stevens | 1945-09-27 | Joan Wingate’s wealthy father doesn’t want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler’s show an… |
| There’s Something About a Soldier | Jean Burton | 1943-11-30 | Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training…. |
| Massacre Canyon | Cora | 1954-05-01 | A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins…. |
| In a Lonely Place | Sylvia Nicolai | 1950-05-17 | An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental and mentally impaired boyfriend is a murderer…. |
| Walk Softly, Stranger | Gwen | 1950-10-14 | A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner’s disabled daughter (Valli)…. |
| Mr. District Attorney | Miss Miller | 1947-02-20 | An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating…. |
| So This Is Love | Henrietta Van Dyke | 1953-07-15 | Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953…. |
| Love Hate Love | Mary Blunden | 1971-02-09 | Ryan O’Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance w… |
| Because You’re Mine | Patty Ware | 1952-10-01 | A famous opera singer (Mario Lanza) falls for his sergeant’s (James Whitmore) sister (Doretta Morrow) at boot camp…. |
| Three Guys Named Mike | Alice Raymend | 1951-03-01 | A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman…all of whom are named Mike. When… |
| 3 Is a Family | Hazel Whittaker | 1944-11-23 | Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, “3 Is a Family” is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his w… |
| Spider-Man | Aunt May Parker | 1978-03-15 | When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man… |
| Congratulations, It’s a Boy! | Rose | 1971-09-21 | A bachelor’s life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son…. |
| A Gift of Terror | Mrs. Cummings | 1973-04-05 | Young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death…. |
| Gidget Goes Hawaiian | Dorothy Lawrence | 1961-06-02 | Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii – just during the two weeks when her beloved “Moondoggy” i… |
| Rendezvous Hotel | Mrs. Williams | 1979-07-11 | High-strung resort hotel manager Walter Grainger hopes to ingratiate himself with a nationally renowned hotel critic while his irreverent staff are ex… |
| Sweet Smell of Success | Sally | 1957-07-04 | New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can’t contro… |
| Easy Living | Penny McCarr | 1949-10-08 | A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him…. |
| My Man Godfrey | Molly | 1957-10-11 | The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and notic… |
| Destination 60,000 | Ruth Buckley | 1957-05-12 | … |
| Murder by Natural Causes | Mrs. Mathews | 1979-02-17 | Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, together with her lover tries to kill him by scaring him to death, but the wh… |
| She’s a Soldier Too | Mary Fleming (uncredited) | 1944-06-29 | Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics…. |
| Gidget Goes to Rome | Mrs. Lawrence | 1963-08-07 | Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of hi… |
| My Sister Eileen | Helen Loomis | 1942-09-24 | Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen … |
| Skirts Ahoy! | Giff | 1952-05-28 | Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn’t long marches or several weeks in a small b… |
| Stand Up and Be Counted | Ruth | 1972-05-01 | Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving a… |
| The Comic | Nurse | 1969-11-19 | An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitte… |
| A Thousand and One Nights | Harem Girl | 1945-07-20 | On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan’s daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it … |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Cornelia | 1970-01-26 | In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! … |
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