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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Rendezvous Hotel | Mrs. Williams | 1979-07-11 |
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Murder by Natural Causes | Mrs. Mathews | 1979-02-17 |
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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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Congratulations, It's a Boy! | Rose | 1971-09-21 |
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Love Hate Love | Mary Blunden | 1971-02-09 |
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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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Force of Impulse | Louise Reese | 1961-11-01 |
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian | Dorothy Lawrence | 1961-06-02 |
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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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My Man Godfrey | Molly | 1957-10-11 |
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Sweet Smell of Success | Sally | 1957-07-04 |
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Magnificent Roughnecks | Julie | 1956-07-22 |
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Sincerely, Willis Wade | Sylvia | 1956-12-13 |
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Meet the O'Briens | Nancy | 1954-07-01 |
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Massacre Canyon | Cora | 1954-05-01 |
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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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Skirts Ahoy! | Giff | 1952-05-28 |
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Thief of Damascus | Sheherazade | 1952-04-01 |
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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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The Fuller Brush Girl | Jane Bixby | 1950-09-15 |
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Hoedown | Vera Wright | 1950-06-01 |
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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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Big Timber | Sally | 1950-09-10 |
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Stagecoach Kid | Jessie Arnold | 1949-06-02 |
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Roughshod | Elaine Wyatt | 1949-05-11 |
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Easy Living | Penny McCarr | 1949-10-08 |
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Outcasts of the Trail | Vinnie White | 1949-06-08 |
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Post Office Investigator | April Shaughnessy | 1949-09-01 |
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Mr. District Attorney | Miss Miller | 1947-02-20 |
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Tars and Spars | Peggy McDougal | 1946-01-10 |
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It's Great to Be Young | Georgia Johnson | 1946-09-12 |
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Singing on the Trail | Cindy Brown | 1946-09-01 |
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Throw a Saddle on a Star | Judy Lane | 1946-03-14 |
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That Texas Jamboree | Jean Warren | 1946-05-16 |
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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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Eadie Was a Lady | Pamela 'Pepper' Parker | 1945-01-24 |
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Song of the Prairie | Penelope 'Penny' Stevens | 1945-09-27 |
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A Thousand and One Nights | Harem Girl | 1945-07-20 |
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Over 21 | Jan Lupton | 1945-08-08 |
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The Power of the Whistler | Frances 'Francie' Lane | 1945-04-19 |
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War | 1944-07-19 | |
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Carolina Blues | Charlotte Barton | 1944-12-20 |
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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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She's a Soldier Too | Mary Fleming (uncredited) | 1944-06-29 |
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3 Is a Family | Hazel Whittaker | 1944-11-23 |
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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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The Boogie Man Will Get You | Winnie Slade | 1942-10-22 |
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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 |
