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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 10, 1921
Died
April 11, 1988
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Also Known As
- Jean Marie Donnell
Jeff Donnell
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
2.0
Edith Sterling
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
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0.0
Mrs. Williams
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
6.9
Mrs. Mathews
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
6.3
Aunt May Parker
Spider-Man
1977
0.0
Gibbsville
1976
3.3
Mrs. Wilson
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
7.4
Ethel
Matt Helm
1975
6.5
Mrs. Carson
Paper Moon
1974
7.5
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
0.0
Mrs. Cummings
A Gift of Terror
1973
Credits
Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling
1979
2.0
🎬
Rendezvous Hotel
as Mrs. Williams
1979
0.0
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews
1979
6.9
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker
1977
6.3
Gibbsville
1976
0.0
McNaughton's Daughter
as Mrs. Wilson
1976
3.3
Matt Helm
as Ethel
1975
7.4
Paper Moon
as Mrs. Carson
1974
6.5
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
7.5
A Gift of Terror
as Mrs. Cummings
1973
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Janet Gossett
1973
6.9
Here We Go Again
as Aunt Patti
1973
5.0
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
as Mrs. Cummings
1972
0.0
The Bob Newhart Show
as Clara Hackler
1972
7.5
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Ruth
1972
7.0
Emergency!
as Katie
1972
7.8
Me and the Chimp
1972
5.0
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose
1971
6.0
Cannon
1971
6.6
Love Hate Love
as Mary Blunden
1971
5.2
The Partridge Family
as Mrs. Monahan
1970
6.8
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia
1970
7.1
The Comic
as Nurse
1969
5.9
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Hutton
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Gellar
1969
6.1
Medical Center
as Mrs. Hersey
1969
6.1
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Cleaning Woman
1969
6.5
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Nurse Klein
1969
4.0
Adam-12
as Mrs. James Nelson
1968
7.0
The Mothers-in-Law
as Elaine
1967
5.8
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The F.B.I.
as Rooming House Manager
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Mrs. Kraft
1965
5.4
Gidget
1965
6.6
Daniel Boone
as Varna Montgomery
1964
7.0
The Addams Family
as Eleanor Digby
1964
8.0
Bristle Face
as Mrs. Jarkey
1964
0.0
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence
1963
4.8
The Iron Maiden
as Miriam Fisher
1963
6.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese
1961
2.5
Dr. Kildare
as Evelyn Driscoll
1961
5.5
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence
1961
4.6
Mister Ed
as Martha Harper
1961
6.7
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Millie Moon
1959
6.3
My Man Godfrey
as Molly
1957
6.4
Perry Mason
as Sylvia Dykes
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Rose Carol
1957
7.7
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally
1957
7.6
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Destination 60,000
as Ruth Buckley
1957
0.0
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller
1957
6.3
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Sylvia
1956
0.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Magnificent Roughnecks
as Julie
1956
0.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mrs. Jarkey
1954
7.8
Climax!
as Kay Matheson
1954
3.3
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The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
Studio 57
1954
0.0
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Meet the O'Briens
1954
0.0
Massacre Canyon
as Cora
1954
5.0
Flight Nurse
as Lt. Ann Phillips
1953
5.5
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke
1953
3.8
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis
1953
6.5
Omnibus
as Helen
1952
6.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as Doris
1952
7.3
Cavalcade of America
as Ann Rutledge
1952
3.5
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware
1952
6.7
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff
1952
5.0
Thief of Damascus
as Sheherazade
1952
5.8
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert
1952
6.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pug
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Marlene
1951
7.2
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend
1951
5.6
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen
1950
5.0
Redwood Forest Trail
as Julie Wescott
1950
0.0
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby
1950
6.0
Big Timber
as Sally
1950
0.0
Hoedown
as Vera Wright
1950
5.0
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai
1950
7.6
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr
1949
5.6
Post Office Investigator
as April Shaughnessy
1949
6.0
Outcasts of the Trail
as Vinnie White
1949
0.0
Stagecoach Kid
as Jessie Arnold
1949
6.0
Roughshod
as Elaine Wyatt
1949
5.3
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller
1947
6.0
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It's Great to Be Young
as Georgia Johnson
1946
0.0
Singing on the Trail
as Cindy Brown
1946
0.0
Cowboy Blues
as Susan Nelson
1946
0.0
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold
1946
6.0
That Texas Jamboree
as Jean Warren
1946
0.0
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan
1946
5.3
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane
1946
5.4
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Judy Lane
1946
0.0
Tars and Spars
as Peggy McDougal
1946
4.7
Song of the Prairie
as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945
0.0
Over 21
as Jan Lupton
1945
5.2
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl
1945
5.8
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane
1945
5.8
Eadie Was a Lady
as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1945
3.3
Carolina Blues
as Charlotte Barton
1944
5.3
Dancing in Manhattan
as Julie Connors
1944
6.0
3 Is a Family
as Hazel Whittaker
1944
0.0
She's a Soldier Too
as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1944
3.0
Stars on Parade
as Mary Brooks
1944
0.0
Nine Girls
as "Butch" Hendricks
1944
5.3
There's Something About a Soldier
as Jean Burton
1943
4.8
Doughboys in Ireland
as Molly Callahan
1943
0.0
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs
1942
6.6
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade
1942
6.1
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis
1942
6.8