Jeff Donnell

1921-07-10 Windham, Maine, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	Rendezvous Hotel	Mrs. Williams	1979-07-11
	Portrait of a Stripper	Edith Sterling	1979-10-02
	Murder by Natural Causes	Mrs. Mathews	1979-02-17
	Spider-Man	Aunt May Parker	1977-09-14
	A Gift of Terror	Mrs. Cummings	1973-04-05
	Stand Up and Be Counted	Ruth	1972-05-01
	Love Hate Love	Mary Blunden	1971-02-09
	Congratulations, It's a Boy!	Rose	1971-09-21
	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Cornelia	1970-01-26
	The Comic	Nurse	1969-11-19
	Bristle Face	Mrs. Jarkey	1964-01-26
	The Iron Maiden	Miriam Fisher	1963-06-07
	Gidget Goes to Rome	Mrs. Lawrence	1963-08-07
	Gidget Goes Hawaiian	Dorothy Lawrence	1961-06-02
	Force of Impulse	Louise Reese	1961-11-01
	My Man Godfrey	Molly	1957-10-11
	The Guns of Fort Petticoat	Mary Wheller	1957-04-01
	Sweet Smell of Success	Sally	1957-07-04
	Destination 60,000	Ruth Buckley	1957-05-12
	Magnificent Roughnecks	Julie	1956-07-22
	Massacre Canyon	Cora	1954-05-01
	Flight Nurse	Lt. Ann Phillips	1953-11-15
	The Blue Gardenia	Sally Ellis	1953-03-20
	So This Is Love	Henrietta Van Dyke	1953-07-15
	Skirts Ahoy!	Giff	1952-05-28
	Thief of Damascus	Sheherazade	1952-04-01
	The First Time	Donna Gilbert	1952-01-31
	Because You're Mine	Patty Ware	1952-10-01
	Three Guys Named Mike	Alice Raymend	1951-03-01
	Walk Softly, Stranger	Gwen	1950-10-14
	Hoedown	Vera Wright	1950-06-01
	The Fuller Brush Girl	Jane Bixby	1950-09-15
	In a Lonely Place	Sylvia Nicolai	1950-05-17
	Redwood Forest Trail	Julie Wescott	1950-09-18
	Big Timber	Sally	1950-09-10
	Stagecoach Kid	Jessie Arnold	1949-06-02
	Roughshod	Elaine Wyatt	1949-05-11
	Outcasts of the Trail	Vinnie White	1949-06-08
	Easy Living	Penny McCarr	1949-10-08
	Post Office Investigator	April Shaughnessy	1949-09-01
	Mr. District Attorney	Miss Miller	1947-02-20
	It's Great to Be Young	Georgia Johnson	1946-09-12
	Tars and Spars	Peggy McDougal	1946-01-10
	Singing on the Trail	Cindy Brown	1946-09-01
	That Texas Jamboree	Jean Warren	1946-05-16
	The Phantom Thief	Anne Parks Duncan	1946-05-02
	Cowboy Blues	Susan Nelson	1946-07-18
	Night Editor	Martha Cochrane	1946-03-29
	Throw a Saddle on a Star	Judy Lane	1946-03-14
	The Unknown	Nina Arnold	1946-07-04
	A Thousand and One Nights	Harem Girl	1945-07-20
	Over 21	Jan Lupton	1945-08-08
	Eadie Was a Lady	Pamela 'Pepper' Parker	1945-01-24
	The Power of the Whistler	Frances 'Francie' Lane	1945-04-19
	Song of the Prairie	Penelope 'Penny' Stevens	1945-09-27
	Dancing in Manhattan	Julie Connors	1944-12-14
	Carolina Blues	Charlotte Barton	1944-12-20
	Nine Girls	"Butch" Hendricks	1944-02-17
	Stars on Parade	Mary Brooks	1944-05-25
	She's a Soldier Too	Mary Fleming (uncredited)	1944-06-29
	3 Is a Family	Hazel Whittaker	1944-11-23
	Doughboys in Ireland	Molly Callahan	1943-10-07
	There's Something About a Soldier	Jean Burton	1943-11-30
	The Boogie Man Will Get You	Winnie Slade	1942-10-22
	A Night to Remember	Anne Stafford Carstairs	1942-12-10
	My Sister Eileen	Helen Loomis	1942-09-24