Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Female
Birthday
July 10, 1921 ( 67 years old )
Place of Birth
Windham, Maine, USA
Also Known As
Jean Marie Donnell
Jeff Donnell
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.
Known For
Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942-10-22The Blue Gardenia
1953-03-20Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961-06-02My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24Night Editor
1946-03-29The Power of the Whistler
1945-04-19In a Lonely Place
1950-05-17The Unknown
1946-07-04A Night to Remember
1942-12-10