Jeff Donnell
Actor
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cornelia 1970
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally 1957
Spider-Man
as Aunt May Parker 1977
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis 1953
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller 1957
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade 1942
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Gwen 1950
My Man Godfrey
as Molly 1957
Night Editor
as Martha Cochrane 1946
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis 1942
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr 1949
The Power of the Whistler
as Frances 'Francie' Lane 1945
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend 1951
Murder by Natural Causes
as Mrs. Mathews 1979
A Thousand and One Nights
as Harem Girl 1945
A Night to Remember
as Anne Carstairs 1942