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Jeff Donnell
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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As actor
Rendezvous Hotel
Portrait of a Stripper
Murder by Natural Causes
Spider-Man
A Gift of Terror
Stand Up and Be Counted
Love Hate Love
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Comic
Bristle Face
The Iron Maiden
Gidget Goes to Rome
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Force of Impulse
Sweet Smell of Success
My Man Godfrey
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Destination 60,000
Magnificent Roughnecks
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Massacre Canyon
Meet the O'Briens
The Blue Gardenia
So This Is Love
Flight Nurse
Thief of Damascus
The First Time
Skirts Ahoy!
Because You're Mine