1921-07-10 Windham, Maine, USA
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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Murder by Natural Causes | Mrs. Mathews | 1979-02-17 |
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Rendezvous Hotel | Mrs. Williams | 1979-07-11 |
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Portrait of a Stripper | Edith Sterling | 1979-10-02 |
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Spider-Man | Aunt May Parker | 1977-09-14 |
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A Gift of Terror | Mrs. Cummings | 1973-04-05 |
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Stand Up and Be Counted | Ruth | 1972-05-01 |
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Love Hate Love | Mary Blunden | 1971-02-09 |
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Congratulations, It's a Boy! | Rose | 1971-09-21 |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! | Cornelia | 1970-01-26 |
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The Comic | Nurse | 1969-11-19 |
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Bristle Face | Mrs. Jarkey | 1964-01-26 |
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The Iron Maiden | Miriam Fisher | 1963-06-07 |
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Gidget Goes to Rome | Mrs. Lawrence | 1963-08-07 |
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian | Dorothy Lawrence | 1961-06-02 |
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Force of Impulse | Louise Reese | 1961-11-01 |
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My Man Godfrey | Molly | 1957-10-11 |
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Sweet Smell of Success | Sally | 1957-07-04 |
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat | Mary Wheller | 1957-04-01 |
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Destination 60,000 | Ruth Buckley | 1957-05-12 |
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Sincerely, Willis Wade | Sylvia | 1956-12-13 |
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Magnificent Roughnecks | Julie | 1956-07-22 |
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Massacre Canyon | Cora | 1954-05-01 |
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Meet the O'Briens | 1954-07-01 | |
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So This Is Love | Henrietta Van Dyke | 1953-07-15 |
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Flight Nurse | Lt. Ann Phillips | 1953-11-15 |
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The Blue Gardenia | Sally Ellis | 1953-03-20 |
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Thief of Damascus | Sheherazade | 1952-04-01 |
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Skirts Ahoy! | Giff | 1952-05-28 |
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Because You're Mine | Patty Ware | 1952-10-01 |
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The First Time | Donna Gilbert | 1952-01-31 |
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Three Guys Named Mike | Alice Raymend | 1951-03-01 |
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Walk Softly, Stranger | Gwen | 1950-10-14 |
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Big Timber | Sally | 1950-09-10 |
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In a Lonely Place | Sylvia Nicolai | 1950-05-17 |
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Redwood Forest Trail | Julie Wescott | 1950-09-18 |
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The Fuller Brush Girl | Jane Bixby | 1950-09-15 |
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Hoedown | Vera Wright | 1950-06-01 |
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Outcasts of the Trail | Vinnie White | 1949-06-08 |
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Stagecoach Kid | Jessie Arnold | 1949-06-02 |
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Easy Living | Penny McCarr | 1949-10-08 |
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Post Office Investigator | April Shaughnessy | 1949-09-01 |
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Roughshod | Elaine Wyatt | 1949-05-11 |
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Mr. District Attorney | Miss Miller | 1947-02-20 |
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It's Great to Be Young | Georgia Johnson | 1946-09-12 |
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Tars and Spars | Peggy McDougal | 1946-01-10 |
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Throw a Saddle on a Star | Judy Lane | 1946-03-14 |
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Cowboy Blues | Susan Nelson | 1946-07-18 |
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The Phantom Thief | Anne Parks Duncan | 1946-05-02 |
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The Unknown | Nina Arnold | 1946-07-04 |
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Night Editor | Martha Cochrane | 1946-03-29 |
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Singing on the Trail | Cindy Brown | 1946-09-01 |
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That Texas Jamboree | Jean Warren | 1946-05-16 |
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A Thousand and One Nights | Harem Girl | 1945-07-20 |
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Song of the Prairie | Penelope 'Penny' Stevens | 1945-09-27 |
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The Power of the Whistler | Frances 'Francie' Lane | 1945-04-19 |
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Eadie Was a Lady | Pamela 'Pepper' Parker | 1945-01-24 |
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Over 21 | Jan Lupton | 1945-08-08 |
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Stars on Parade | Mary Brooks | 1944-05-25 |
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Nine Girls | "Butch" Hendricks | 1944-02-17 |
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Carolina Blues | Charlotte Barton | 1944-12-20 |
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3 Is a Family | Hazel Whittaker | 1944-11-23 |
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She's a Soldier Too | Mary Fleming (uncredited) | 1944-06-29 |
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Dancing in Manhattan | Julie Connors | 1944-12-14 |
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Doughboys in Ireland | Molly Callahan | 1943-10-07 |
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There's Something About a Soldier | Jean Burton | 1943-11-30 |
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My Sister Eileen | Helen Loomis | 1942-09-24 |
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A Night to Remember | Anne Carstairs | 1942-12-10 |
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The Boogie Man Will Get You | Winnie Slade | 1942-10-22 |
