Jeff Donnell
Actor
Born July 10, 1921 in Windham, Maine, USA
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.
Filmography
Portrait of a Stripper
Edith Sterling
Murder by Natural Causes
Mrs. Mathews
Spider-Man
Aunt May Parker
Gibbsville
Matt Helm
Ethel
Paper Moon
Mrs. Carson
The Girl with Something Extra
A Gift of Terror
Mrs. Cummings
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Janet Gossett
Here We Go Again
Aunt Patti
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
Mrs. Cummings
The Bob Newhart Show
Clara Hackler
Stand Up and Be Counted
Ruth
Emergency!
Katie
Me and the Chimp
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Rose
Cannon
Love Hate Love
Mary Blunden
The Partridge Family
Mrs. Monahan
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cornelia
The Comic
Nurse
Love, American Style
Mrs. Hutton
Medical Center
Mrs. Hersey
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Cleaning Woman
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Nurse Klein
Adam-12
Mrs. James Nelson
The Mothers-in-Law
Elaine
Felony Squad
The F.B.I.
Rooming House Manager
Gidget
Daniel Boone
Varna Montgomery
The Addams Family
Eleanor Digby
Bristle Face
Mrs. Jarkey
Gidget Goes to Rome
Mrs. Lawrence
The Iron Maiden
Miriam Fisher
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Force of Impulse
Louise Reese
Dr. Kildare
Evelyn Driscoll
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Dorothy Lawrence
Mister Ed
Martha Harper
Special for Women
The Career Woman
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Millie Moon
My Man Godfrey
Molly
Perry Mason
Sylvia Dykes
Sweet Smell of Success
Sally
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Mary Wheller
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Sylvia
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Magnificent Roughnecks
Julie
Matinee Theater
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mrs. Jarkey
Climax!
Kay Matheson
Studio 57
Meet the O'Briens
Nancy
Massacre Canyon
Cora
Flight Nurse
Lt. Ann Phillips
So This Is Love
Henrietta Van Dyke
The Blue Gardenia
Sally Ellis
Omnibus
Helen
The Ford Television Theatre
Doris
Because You're Mine
Patty Ware
Cavalcade of America
Ann Rutledge
Skirts Ahoy!
Giff
Thief of Damascus
Sheherazade
The First Time
Donna Gilbert
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Pug
Racket Squad
Three Guys Named Mike
Alice Raymend
Walk Softly, Stranger
Gwen
Redwood Forest Trail
Julie Wescott
The Fuller Brush Girl
Jane Bixby
Big Timber
Sally
Hoedown
Vera Wright
In a Lonely Place
Sylvia Nicolai
Easy Living
Penny McCarr
Post Office Investigator
April Shaughnessy
Outcasts of the Trail
Vinnie White
Stagecoach Kid
Jessie Arnold
Roughshod
Elaine Wyatt
Mr. District Attorney
Miss Miller
Singing on the Trail
Cindy Brown
Cowboy Blues
Susan Nelson
The Unknown
Nina Arnold
That Texas Jamboree
Jean Warren
The Phantom Thief
Anne Parks Duncan
Night Editor
Martha Cochrane
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Judy Lane
Tars and Spars
Peggy McDougal
Song of the Prairie
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Over 21
Jan Lupton
A Thousand and One Nights
Harem Girl
The Power of the Whistler
Frances 'Francie' Lane
Eadie Was a Lady
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Carolina Blues
Charlotte Barton
Dancing in Manhattan
Julie Connors
3 Is a Family
Hazel Whittaker
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
She's a Soldier Too
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
Mary Brooks
Nine Girls
"Butch" Hendricks
There's Something About a Soldier
Jean Burton
Doughboys in Ireland
Molly Callahan
A Night to Remember
Anne Carstairs
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Winnie Slade
My Sister Eileen
Helen Loomis