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.
69 movies · 43 shows
Portrait of a Stripper
1979·3.5
Rendezvous Hotel
1979·7.0
Murder by Natural Causes
1979·6.9
Spider-Man
1977·6.3
A Gift of Terror
1973·7.0
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972·7.0
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971·6.5
Love Hate Love
1971·5.9
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970·7.2
The Comic
1969·6.1
Bristle Face
1964·8.0
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963·5.0
The Iron Maiden
1963·6.6
Force of Impulse
1961·4.3
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961·5.0
My Man Godfrey
1957·6.5
Sweet Smell of Success
1957·7.6
Destination 60,000
1957·10.0
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957·6.3
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956·8.0
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956·10.0
Meet the O'Briens
1954·0.0
Massacre Canyon
1954·6.7
Flight Nurse
1953·6.0
So This Is Love
1953·4.3
The Blue Gardenia
1953·6.5
Because You're Mine
1952·6.8
Skirts Ahoy!
1952·5.8
Thief of Damascus
1952·6.7
The First Time
1952·7.5
Three Guys Named Mike
1951·5.8
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950·5.1
Redwood Forest Trail
1950·7.0
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950·6.1
Big Timber
1950·10.0
Hoedown
1950·6.0
In a Lonely Place
1950·7.6
Easy Living
1949·5.7
Post Office Investigator
1949·7.0
Outcasts of the Trail
1949·9.0
Stagecoach Kid
1949·7.3
Roughshod
1949·5.7
Mr. District Attorney
1947·6.5
It's Great to Be Young
1946·9.0
Singing on the Trail
1946·7.0
Cowboy Blues
1946·10.0
The Unknown
1946·6.3
That Texas Jamboree
1946·8.0
The Phantom Thief
1946·6.4
Night Editor
1946·5.5
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946·7.0
Tars and Spars
1946·5.8
Song of the Prairie
1945·7.0
Over 21
1945·6.7
A Thousand and One Nights
1945·6.1
The Power of the Whistler
1945·5.9
Eadie Was a Lady
1945·4.4
Carolina Blues
1944·5.8
Dancing in Manhattan
1944·7.0
3 Is a Family
1944·9.0
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944·7.1
She's a Soldier Too
1944·5.5
Stars on Parade
1944·8.0
Nine Girls
1944·5.8
There's Something About a Soldier
1943·5.4
Doughboys in Ireland
1943·10.0
A Night to Remember
1942·6.7
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942·6.2
My Sister Eileen
1942·6.8