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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Acting
Role
as Mrs. Mathews
as Aunt May Parker
as Mary Blunden
as Rose
as Miriam Fisher
as Dorothy Lawrence
as Mary Wheller
as Sally
as Henrietta Van Dyke
as Lt. Ann Phillips
as Sally Ellis
as Giff
as Patty Ware
as Sheherazade
as Alice Raymend
as Gwen
as Jane Bixby
as Julie Wescott
as Sally
as Sylvia Nicolai
as April Shaughnessy
as Elaine Wyatt
as Jessie Arnold
as Penny McCarr
as Miss Miller
as Martha Cochrane
