Jeff Donnell [14576] Gender: Female Popularity: 0.9797 Birthplace: Windham, Maine, USA Birthday: 1921-07-10 Deathday: 1988-04-11 Age: 66 years Movies: 66 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: Jeff Donnell 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. Portrait of a Stripper1979-10-02 Rendezvous Hotel1979-07-11 Murder by Natural Cause1979-02-17 Spider-Man1977-09-14 A Gift of Terror1973-04-05 Stand Up and Be Counted1972-05-01 Congratulations, It's a1971-09-21 Love Hate Love1971-02-09 Tora! Tora! Tora!1970-01-26 The Comic1969-11-19 Bristle Face1964-01-26 Gidget Goes to Rome1963-08-07 The Iron Maiden1963-06-07 Force of Impulse1961-11-01 Gidget Goes Hawaiian1961-06-02 My Man Godfrey1957-10-11 Sweet Smell of Success1957-07-04 Destination 60,0001957-05-12 The Guns of Fort Pettic1957-04-01 Magnificent Roughnecks1956-07-22 Massacre Canyon1954-05-01 Flight Nurse1953-11-15 So This Is Love1953-07-15 The Blue Gardenia1953-03-20 Because You're Mine1952-10-01 Skirts Ahoy!1952-05-28 Thief of Damascus1952-04-01 The First Time1952-01-31 Three Guys Named Mike1951-03-01 Walk Softly, Stranger1950-10-14 Redwood Forest Trail1950-09-18 The Fuller Brush Girl1950-09-15 Big Timber1950-09-10 Hoedown1950-06-01 In a Lonely Place1950-05-17 Easy Living1949-10-08 Post Office Investigato1949-09-01 Outcasts of the Trail1949-06-08 Stagecoach Kid1949-06-02 Roughshod1949-05-11 Mr. District Attorney1947-02-20 It's Great to Be Young1946-09-12 Singing on the Trail1946-09-01 Cowboy Blues1946-07-18 The Unknown1946-07-04 That Texas Jamboree1946-05-16 The Phantom Thief1946-05-02 Night Editor1946-03-29 Throw a Saddle on a Sta1946-03-14 Tars and Spars1946-01-10 Song of the Prairie1945-09-27 Over 211945-08-08 A Thousand and One Nigh1945-07-20 The Power of the Whistl1945-04-19 Eadie Was a Lady1945-01-24 Carolina Blues1944-12-20 Dancing in Manhattan1944-12-14 3 Is a Family1944-11-23 She's a Soldier Too1944-06-29 Stars on Parade1944-05-25 Nine Girls1944-02-17 There's Something About1943-11-30 Doughboys in Ireland1943-10-07 A Night to Remember1942-12-10 The Boogie Man Will Get1942-10-22 My Sister Eileen1942-09-24