Jeff Donnell

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Windham, Maine, USA, 1921-07-10

Died: 1988-04-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	My Sister Eileen	Helen Loomis	67
2	1942	The Boogie Man Will Get You	Winnie Slade	63
3	1942	A Night to Remember	Anne Carstairs	65
4	1943	Doughboys in Ireland	Molly Callahan	0
5	1943	There's Something About a Soldier	Jean Burton	48
6	1944	Nine Girls	"Butch" Hendricks	53
7	1944	Stars on Parade	Mary Brooks	0
8	1944	She's a Soldier Too	Mary Fleming (uncredited)	30
9	1944	3 Is a Family	Hazel Whittaker	0
10	1944	Dancing in Manhattan	Julie Connors	60
11	1944	Carolina Blues	Charlotte Barton	53
12	1945	Eadie Was a Lady	Pamela 'Pepper' Parker	40
13	1945	The Power of the Whistler	Frances 'Francie' Lane	58
14	1945	A Thousand and One Nights	Harem Girl	57
15	1945	Over 21	Jan Lupton	53
16	1945	Song of the Prairie	Penelope 'Penny' Stevens	0
17	1946	Tars and Spars	Peggy McDougal	47
18	1946	Throw a Saddle on a Star	Judy Lane	0
19	1946	Night Editor	Martha Cochrane	56
20	1946	The Phantom Thief	Anne Parks Duncan	53
21	1946	That Texas Jamboree	Jean Warren	0
22	1946	The Unknown	Nina Arnold	56
23	1946	Cowboy Blues	Susan Nelson	0
24	1946	Singing on the Trail	Cindy Brown	0
25	1946	It's Great to Be Young	Georgia Johnson	0
26	1947	Mr. District Attorney	Miss Miller	60
27	1949	Roughshod	Elaine Wyatt	53
28	1949	Stagecoach Kid	Jessie Arnold	60
29	1949	Outcasts of the Trail	Vinnie White	0
30	1949	Post Office Investigator	April Shaughnessy	60
31	1949	Easy Living	Penny McCarr	59
32	1950	In a Lonely Place	Sylvia Nicolai	76
33	1950	Hoedown	Vera Wright	0
34	1950	Big Timber	Sally	0
35	1950	The Fuller Brush Girl	Jane Bixby	60
36	1950	Redwood Forest Trail	Julie Wescott	0
37	1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Gwen	50
38	1951	Three Guys Named Mike	Alice Raymend	57
39	1952	The First Time	Donna Gilbert	65
40	1952	Thief of Damascus	Sheherazade	58
41	1952	Skirts Ahoy!	Giff	50
42	1952	Because You're Mine	Patty Ware	67
43	1953	The Blue Gardenia	Sally Ellis	66
44	1953	So This Is Love	Henrietta Van Dyke	45
45	1953	Flight Nurse	Lt. Ann Phillips	55
46	1954	Massacre Canyon	Cora	50
47	1956	Magnificent Roughnecks	Julie	0
48	1957	The Guns of Fort Petticoat	Mary Wheller	63
49	1957	Destination 60,000	Ruth Buckley	0
50	1957	Sweet Smell of Success	Sally	76
51	1957	My Man Godfrey	Molly	63
52	1961	Gidget Goes Hawaiian	Dorothy Lawrence	45
53	1961	Force of Impulse	Louise Reese	25
54	1963	The Iron Maiden	Miriam Fisher	66
55	1963	Gidget Goes to Rome	Mrs. Lawrence	48
56	1964	Bristle Face	Mrs. Jarkey	0
57	1969	The Comic	Nurse	59
58	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Cornelia	72
59	1971	Love Hate Love	Mary Blunden	58
60	1971	Congratulations, It's a Boy!	Rose	60
61	1972	Stand Up and Be Counted	Ruth	0
62	1973	A Gift of Terror	Mrs. Cummings	0
63	1977	Spider-Man	Aunt May Parker	62
64	1979	Murder by Natural Causes	Mrs. Mathews	69
65	1979	Rendezvous Hotel	Mrs. Williams	0
66	1979	Portrait of a Stripper	Edith Sterling	25

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Racket Squad		60
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Pug	70
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Marlene	70
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		87
5	1952	Cavalcade of America	Ann Rutledge	35
6	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Doris	70
7	1952	Omnibus	Helen	60
8	1954	Studio 57		0
9	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	70
10	1954	Climax!	Kay Matheson	30
11	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mrs. Jarkey	76
12	1955	Matinee Theater		46
13	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	53
14	1957	Perry Mason	Sylvia Dykes	77
15	1957	Perry Mason	Rose Carol	77
16	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Millie Moon	63
17	1961	Mister Ed	Martha Harper	67
18	1961	Dr. Kildare	Evelyn Driscoll	54
19	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
20	1964	The Addams Family	Eleanor Digby	81
21	1964	Daniel Boone	Varna Montgomery	69
22	1965	Gidget		64
23	1965	The F.B.I.	Rooming House Manager	56
24	1965	The F.B.I.	Mrs. Kraft	56
25	1966	Felony Squad		70
26	1967	The Mothers-in-Law	Elaine	60
27	1968	Adam-12	Mrs. James Nelson	71
28	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Nurse Klein	40
29	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Cleaning Woman	65
30	1969	Medical Center	Mrs. Hersey	61
31	1969	Love, American Style	Mrs. Hutton	60
32	1969	Love, American Style	Mrs. Gellar	60
33	1970	Nanny and the Professor	Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)	60
34	1970	The Partridge Family	Mrs. Monahan	67
35	1971	Cannon		65
36	1972	Me and the Chimp		50
37	1972	Emergency!	Katie	78
38	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Clara Hackler	74
39	1973	Here We Go Again	Aunt Patti	50
40	1973	Barnaby Jones	Janet Gossett	70
41	1973	Police Story		71
42	1973	The Girl with Something Extra		75
43	1974	Paper Moon	Mrs. Carson	63
44	1975	Matt Helm	Ethel	74
45	1976	Gibbsville		0