Jeff Donnell
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.
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Mister Ed
6.8
Gidget
6.4
The F.B.I.
5.5
Omnibus
6
Perry Mason
7.7
Cannon
6.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Felony Squad
6.4
Me and the Chimp
5
The Girl with Something Extra
7.5
Police Story
6.9
Daniel Boone
6.9
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Climax!
3.273
Matinee Theater
5
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
The Addams Family
8
Racket Squad
6
Cavalcade of America
3.5
Dr. Kildare
5.5
The George Gobel Show
7.333
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
Paper Moon
6.3
Matt Helm
7.4
Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
The F.B.I.
5.5
Adam-12
7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Perry Mason
7.7
Here We Go Again
5
Emergency!
7.8
Medical Center
6.1
The Mothers-in-Law
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Barnaby Jones
6.9
Gibbsville
0
The Bob Newhart Show
7.5
Nanny and the Professor
6
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
4
The Partridge Family
6.7
Love, American Style
6.056
Love, American Style
6.056
Studio 57
0
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
The Ford Television Theatre
7.333
Movies
Sweet Smell of Success
7.605
The Boogie Man Will Get You
6.3
The Blue Gardenia
6.55
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
4.625
My Sister Eileen
6.7
Night Editor
5.6
The Power of the Whistler
5.8
In a Lonely Place
7.597
The Unknown
6
A Night to Remember
6.5
The Fuller Brush Girl
6
The Phantom Thief
5.3
Walk Softly, Stranger
5
Over 21
5.25
Easy Living
5.9
The Iron Maiden
6.375
Roughshod
5.3
Rendezvous Hotel
0
Three Guys Named Mike
5.706
Mr. District Attorney
6.5
Post Office Investigator
6
Song of the Prairie
0
Thief of Damascus
5.75
Carolina Blues
5.3
The First Time
6.5
So This Is Love
4.5
There's Something About a Soldier
4.8
Flight Nurse
5.5
My Man Godfrey
6.3
Massacre Canyon
5
Redwood Forest Trail
0
That Texas Jamboree
0
Hoedown
0
Portrait of a Stripper
2.5
Singing on the Trail
0
Throw a Saddle on a Star
0
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
6.3
Destination 60,000
0
3 Is a Family
0
Dancing in Manhattan
6
She's a Soldier Too
3
Doughboys in Ireland
0
Stagecoach Kid
6
Skirts Ahoy!
5
Stars on Parade
0
Cowboy Blues
0
Outcasts of the Trail
0
Eadie Was a Lady
4
Force of Impulse
2.5
Nine Girls
5.3
Stand Up and Be Counted
7
Tars and Spars
4.7
Gidget Goes to Rome
4.8
Big Timber
0
Bristle Face
0
Murder by Natural Causes
6.9
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.147
Spider-Man
6.3
A Thousand and One Nights
5.7
It's Great to Be Young
0
The Comic
5.9
Magnificent Roughnecks
0
Love Hate Love
5.8
Because You're Mine
6.7
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
6
A Gift of Terror
0