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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-07-10 (103 years old)

Place of Birth

Windham, Maine, USA

Jeff Donnell

Biography:

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.

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Known For

Acting

1979

Rendezvous Hotel as Mrs. Williams
Portrait of a Stripper as Edith Sterling
Murder by Natural Causes as Mrs. Mathews

1977

Spider-Man as Aunt May Parker

1976

1975

Matt Helm as Ethel

1974

Paper Moon as Mrs. Carson

1973

A Gift of Terror as Mrs. Cummings
Here We Go Again as Aunt Patti
Barnaby Jones as Janet Gossett

1972

Emergency! as Katie
The Bob Newhart Show as Clara Hackler

1971

Love Hate Love as Mary Blunden

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora! as Cornelia
The Partridge Family as Mrs. Monahan
Nanny and the Professor as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)

1969

The Comic as Nurse
Marcus Welby, M.D. as Cleaning Woman
Medical Center as Mrs. Hersey
Love, American Style as Mrs. Hutton
Love, American Style as Mrs. Gellar

1968

Adam-12 as Mrs. James Nelson

1967

1966

1965

The F.B.I. as Rooming House Manager
The F.B.I. as Mrs. Kraft

1964

Bristle Face as Mrs. Jarkey
Daniel Boone as Varna Montgomery
The Addams Family as Eleanor Digby

1963

The Iron Maiden as Miriam Fisher
Gidget Goes to Rome as Mrs. Lawrence

1962

1961

Gidget Goes Hawaiian as Dorothy Lawrence
Force of Impulse as Louise Reese
Mister Ed as Martha Harper
Dr. Kildare as Evelyn Driscoll

1959

1957

Destination 60,000 as Ruth Buckley
Perry Mason as Sylvia Dykes
Perry Mason as Rose Carol

1956

1955

1954

Climax! as Kay Matheson

1953

The Blue Gardenia as Sally Ellis
So This Is Love as Henrietta Van Dyke
Flight Nurse as Lt. Ann Phillips

1952

Thief of Damascus as Sheherazade
The First Time as Donna Gilbert
Skirts Ahoy! as Giff
Because You're Mine as Patty Ware
Omnibus as Helen
Cavalcade of America as Ann Rutledge

1951

Three Guys Named Mike as Alice Raymend

1950

In a Lonely Place as Sylvia Nicolai
The Fuller Brush Girl as Jane Bixby
Redwood Forest Trail as Julie Wescott
Hoedown as Vera Wright
Big Timber as Sally

1949

Easy Living as Penny McCarr
Roughshod as Elaine Wyatt
Post Office Investigator as April Shaughnessy
Stagecoach Kid as Jessie Arnold
Outcasts of the Trail as Vinnie White

1947

Mr. District Attorney as Miss Miller

1946

Night Editor as Martha Cochrane
The Unknown as Nina Arnold
The Phantom Thief as Anne Parks Duncan
That Texas Jamboree as Jean Warren
Singing on the Trail as Cindy Brown
Cowboy Blues as Susan Nelson
Tars and Spars as Peggy McDougal
It's Great to Be Young as Georgia Johnson

1945

The Power of the Whistler as Frances 'Francie' Lane
Over 21 as Jan Lupton
Song of the Prairie as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Eadie Was a Lady as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker

1944

Carolina Blues as Charlotte Barton
3 Is a Family as Hazel Whittaker
Dancing in Manhattan as Julie Connors
She's a Soldier Too as Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade as Mary Brooks
Nine Girls as "Butch" Hendricks

1943

Doughboys in Ireland as Molly Callahan

1942

My Sister Eileen as Helen Loomis
A Night to Remember as Anne Carstairs