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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 …
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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.
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Jeff Donnell's Filmography
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Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling
No Poster
Rendezvous Hotel
as Mrs. Williams
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose
Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
The Comic
as Nurse
Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
No Poster
Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia
Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie
Meet the O'Briens
as Nancy
Massacre Canyon
as Cora
Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
Big Timber
as Sally
Hoedown
as Vera Wright
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
No Poster
It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson
Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Over 21
as Jan Lupton
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis