Jeff Donnell
Acting
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.
TV Shows(43)
Gibbsville
1976
McNaughton's Daughter
Mrs. Wilson
1976
Matt Helm
Ethel
1975
Paper Moon
Mrs. Carson
1974
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
Janet Gossett
1973
Here We Go Again
Aunt Patti
1973
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
Mrs. Cummings
1972
The Bob Newhart Show
Clara Hackler
1972
Emergency!
Katie
1972
Me and the Chimp
1972
Cannon
1971
The Partridge Family
Mrs. Monahan
1970
Love, American Style
Mrs. Hutton
1969
Medical Center
Mrs. Hersey
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Cleaning Woman
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Nurse Klein
1969
Adam-12
Mrs. James Nelson
1968
The Mothers-in-Law
Elaine
1967
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
Rooming House Manager
1965
Gidget
1965
Daniel Boone
Varna Montgomery
1964
The Addams Family
Eleanor Digby
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Dr. Kildare
Evelyn Driscoll
1961
Mister Ed
Martha Harper
1961
Special for Women
The Career Woman
1960
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Millie Moon
1959
Perry Mason
Sylvia Dykes
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mrs. Jarkey
1954
Climax!
Kay Matheson
1954
The George Gobel Show
Self
1954
Studio 57
1954
Omnibus
Helen
1952
The Ford Television Theatre
Doris
1952
Cavalcade of America
Ann Rutledge
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Pug
1951
Racket Squad
1951
Movies(69)
Portrait of a Stripper
Edith Sterling
1979
Rendezvous Hotel
Mrs. Williams
1979
Murder by Natural Causes
Mrs. Mathews
1979
Spider-Man
Aunt May Parker
1977
A Gift of Terror
Mrs. Cummings
1973
Stand Up and Be Counted
Ruth
1972
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Rose
1971
Love Hate Love
Mary Blunden
1971
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cornelia
1970
The Comic
Nurse
1969
Bristle Face
Mrs. Jarkey
1964
Gidget Goes to Rome
Mrs. Lawrence
1963
The Iron Maiden
Miriam Fisher
1963
Force of Impulse
Louise Reese
1961
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Dorothy Lawrence
1961
My Man Godfrey
Molly
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
Sally
1957
Destination 60,000
Ruth Buckley
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Mary Wheller
1957
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Sylvia
1956
Magnificent Roughnecks
Julie
1956
Meet the O'Briens
Nancy
1954
Massacre Canyon
Cora
1954
Flight Nurse
Lt. Ann Phillips
1953
So This Is Love
Henrietta Van Dyke
1953
The Blue Gardenia
Sally Ellis
1953
Because You're Mine
Patty Ware
1952
Skirts Ahoy!
Giff
1952
Thief of Damascus
Sheherazade
1952
The First Time
Donna Gilbert
1952
Three Guys Named Mike
Alice Raymend
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
Gwen
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
Julie Wescott
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
Jane Bixby
1950
Big Timber
Sally
1950
Hoedown
Vera Wright
1950
In a Lonely Place
Sylvia Nicolai
1950
Easy Living
Penny McCarr
1949
Post Office Investigator
April Shaughnessy
1949
Outcasts of the Trail
Vinnie White
1949
Stagecoach Kid
Jessie Arnold
1949
Roughshod
Elaine Wyatt
1949
Mr. District Attorney
Miss Miller
1947
It's Great to Be Young
Georgia Johnson
1946
Singing on the Trail
Cindy Brown
1946
Cowboy Blues
Susan Nelson
1946
The Unknown
Nina Arnold
1946
That Texas Jamboree
Jean Warren
1946
The Phantom Thief
Anne Parks Duncan
1946
Night Editor
Martha Cochrane
1946
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Judy Lane
1946
Tars and Spars
Peggy McDougal
1946
Song of the Prairie
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
1945
Over 21
Jan Lupton
1945
A Thousand and One Nights
Harem Girl
1945
The Power of the Whistler
Frances 'Francie' Lane
1945
Eadie Was a Lady
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
1945
Carolina Blues
Charlotte Barton
1944
Dancing in Manhattan
Julie Connors
1944
3 Is a Family
Hazel Whittaker
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
She's a Soldier Too
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
1944
Stars on Parade
Mary Brooks
1944
Nine Girls
"Butch" Hendricks
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
Jean Burton
1943
Doughboys in Ireland
Molly Callahan
1943
A Night to Remember
Anne Carstairs
1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Winnie Slade
1942
My Sister Eileen
Helen Loomis
1942