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Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell

Birthday: 1921-07-10 | Place of Birth: Windham, Maine, U.S.

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1979
Murder by Natural Causes

as    Mrs. Mathews

1977
Spider-Man

as    Aunt May Parker

1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat

as    Mary Wheller

1957
Sweet Smell of Success

as    Sally

1953
Flight Nurse

as    Lt. Ann Phillips

1953
The Blue Gardenia

as    Sally Ellis

1952
Because You're Mine

as    Patty Ware

1952
Thief of Damascus

as    Sheherazade

1951
Three Guys Named Mike

as    Alice Raymend

1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as    Gwen

1950
Redwood Forest Trail

as    Julie Wescott

1950
In a Lonely Place

as    Sylvia Nicolai

1949
Post Office Investigator

as    April Shaughnessy

1949
Roughshod

as    Elaine Wyatt

1949
Stagecoach Kid

as    Jessie Arnold

1946
The Phantom Thief

as    Anne Parks Duncan

1946
Singing on the Trail

as    Cindy Brown

1946
The Unknown

as    Nina Arnold

1945
The Power of the Whistler

as    Frances 'Francie' Lane

1944
Dancing in Manhattan

as    Julie Connors

1943
Doughboys in Ireland

as    Molly Callahan

1942
A Night to Remember

as    Anne Carstairs

1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You

as    Winnie Slade