Jeff Donnell
Born July 10, 1921 (Age: 104)
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Windham, Maine, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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
A Gift of Terror
1973
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as Mrs. Cummings
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Age: 51
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
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as Ruth
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Age: 50
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
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as Cornelia
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Age: 48
The Comic
1969
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as Nurse
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Age: 48
Bristle Face
1964
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as Mrs. Jarkey
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Age: 42
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963
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as Mrs. Lawrence
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Age: 42
The Iron Maiden
1963
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as Miriam Fisher
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Age: 41
Force of Impulse
1961
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as Louise Reese
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Age: 40
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
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as Dorothy Lawrence
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Age: 39
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956
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as Sylvia
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Age: 35
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
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as Julie
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Age: 35
Meet the O'Briens
1954
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as Nancy
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Age: 32
Massacre Canyon
1954
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as Cora
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Age: 32
Flight Nurse
1953
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as Lt. Ann Phillips
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Age: 32
So This Is Love
1953
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as Henrietta Van Dyke
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Age: 32
The Blue Gardenia
1953
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as Sally Ellis
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Age: 31
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
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as Gwen
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Age: 29
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
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as Julie Wescott
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Age: 29
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
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as Jane Bixby
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Age: 29
Big Timber
1950
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as Sally
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Age: 29
Hoedown
1950
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as Vera Wright
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Age: 28
In a Lonely Place
1950
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as Sylvia Nicolai
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Age: 28
Song of the Prairie
1945
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as Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
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Age: 24
Over 21
1945
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as Jan Lupton
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Age: 24
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
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as Harem Girl
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Age: 24
The Power of the Whistler
1945
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as Frances 'Francie' Lane
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Age: 23
Eadie Was a Lady
1945
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as Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
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Age: 23
A Night to Remember
1942
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as Anne Carstairs
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Age: 21
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
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as Winnie Slade
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Age: 21
My Sister Eileen
1942
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as Helen Loomis
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Age: 21