Jeff Donnell [14576] Gender: Female Popularity: 1.3708 Birthplace: Windham, Maine, USA Birthday: 1921-07-10 Deathday: 1988-04-11 Age: 66 years Movies: 66 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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. Portrait of a St1979-10-02 Rendezvous Hotel1979-07-11 Murder by Natura1979-02-17 Spider-Man1977-09-14 A Gift of Terror1973-04-05 Stand Up and Be 1972-05-01 Congratulations,1971-09-21 Love Hate Love1971-02-09 Tora! Tora! Tora1970-01-26 The Comic1969-11-19 Bristle Face1964-01-26 Gidget Goes to R1963-08-07 The Iron Maiden1963-06-07 Force of Impulse1961-11-01 Gidget Goes Hawa1961-06-02 My Man Godfrey1957-10-11 Sweet Smell of S1957-07-04 Destination 60,01957-05-12 The Guns of Fort1957-04-01 Magnificent Roug1956-07-22 Massacre Canyon1954-05-01 Flight Nurse1953-11-15 So This Is Love1953-07-15 The Blue Gardeni1953-03-20 Because You're M1952-10-01 Skirts Ahoy!1952-05-28 Thief of Damascu1952-04-01 The First Time1952-01-31 Three Guys Named1951-03-01 Walk Softly, Str1950-10-14 Redwood Forest T1950-09-18 The Fuller Brush1950-09-15 Big Timber1950-09-10 Hoedown1950-06-01 In a Lonely Plac1950-05-17 Easy Living1949-10-08 Post Office Inve1949-09-01 Outcasts of the 1949-06-08 Stagecoach Kid1949-06-02 Roughshod1949-05-11 Mr. District Att1947-02-20 It's Great to Be1946-09-12 Singing on the T1946-09-01 Cowboy Blues1946-07-18 The Unknown1946-07-04 That Texas Jambo1946-05-16 The Phantom Thie1946-05-02 Night Editor1946-03-29 Throw a Saddle o1946-03-14 Tars and Spars1946-01-10 Song of the Prai1945-09-27 Over 211945-08-08 A Thousand and O1945-07-20 The Power of the1945-04-19 Eadie Was a Lady1945-01-24 Carolina Blues1944-12-20 Dancing in Manha1944-12-14 3 Is a Family1944-11-23 She's a Soldier 1944-06-29 Stars on Parade1944-05-25 Nine Girls1944-02-17 There's Somethin1943-11-30 Doughboys in Ire1943-10-07 A Night to Remem1942-12-10 The Boogie Man W1942-10-22 My Sister Eileen1942-09-24