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Jeff Donnell
Known for: ActingJean 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 23
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Mary Wheller 
My Man Godfrey
as Molly 
Sweet Smell of Success
as Sally 
In a Lonely Place
as Sylvia Nicolai 
The Unknown
as Nina Arnold 
Easy Living
as Penny McCarr 
The Blue Gardenia
as Sally Ellis 
The Phantom Thief
as Anne Parks Duncan 
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Jane Bixby 
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Winnie Slade 
Portrait of a Stripper
as Edith Sterling 
Because You're Mine
as Patty Ware 
So This Is Love
as Henrietta Van Dyke 
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Mrs. Lawrence 
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
as Dorothy Lawrence 
Skirts Ahoy!
as Giff 
Three Guys Named Mike
as Alice Raymend 
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
as Rose 
My Sister Eileen
as Helen Loomis 
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Miller 
Over 21
as Jan Lupton 
Force of Impulse
as Louise Reese 
The First Time
as Donna Gilbert