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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.008 |
| Birthday | 1921-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | Windham, Maine, USA |
| Also Known As | Jean Marie Donnell, |
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
7.6/510
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't contro...
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Sweet Smell of Success
1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You
6.3/27
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
1953
The Blue Gardenia
6.6/88
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the...
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The Blue Gardenia
1961
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
4.5/11
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" i...
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1942
My Sister Eileen
6.7/19
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...
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My Sister Eileen
1946
Night Editor
5.6/22
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Night Editor
1945
The Power of the Whistler
5.8/18
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on item...
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The Power of the Whistler
1950
In a Lonely Place
7.594/597
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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In a Lonely Place
1946
The Unknown
5.6/5
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inher...
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The Unknown
1942
A Night to Remember
6.5/14
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to creat...
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A Night to Remember
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
6/10
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
1946
The Phantom Thief
5.3/3
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and t...
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The Phantom Thief
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
5/26
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Walk Softly, Stranger
1945
Over 21
5.25/4
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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Over 21
1949
Easy Living
5.9/18
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Easy Living
1963
The Iron Maiden
6.6/7
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jac...
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The Iron Maiden
1949
Roughshod
5.3/11
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him b...
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Roughshod
1979
Rendezvous Hotel
0/0
A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective seri...
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Rendezvous Hotel
1951
Three Guys Named Mike
5.8/16
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When...
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Three Guys Named Mike
1947
Mr. District Attorney
6.5/4
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
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Mr. District Attorney
1949
Post Office Investigator
6/1
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
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Post Office Investigator
1945
Song of the Prairie
0/0
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show an...
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Song of the Prairie
1952
Thief of Damascus
5.75/4
A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
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Thief of Damascus
1944
Carolina Blues
5.3/3
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
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Carolina Blues
1952
The First Time
6.5/1
A married couple welcomes their first child.
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The First Time
1953
So This Is Love
4.5/4
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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So This Is Love
1943
There's Something About a Soldier
4.8/3
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
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There's Something About a Soldier
1953
Flight Nurse
5.5/2
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
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Flight Nurse
1957
My Man Godfrey
6.3/22
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and notic...
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My Man Godfrey
1954
Massacre Canyon
5/1
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
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Massacre Canyon
1950
Redwood Forest Trail
0/0
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the...
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Redwood Forest Trail
1946
That Texas Jamboree
0/0
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his...
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That Texas Jamboree
1950
Hoedown
0/0
A movie cowboy scrambles to salvage his career after his latest movie turns out to be a flop.
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Hoedown
1979
Portrait of a Stripper
2.5/2
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that...
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Portrait of a Stripper
1946
Singing on the Trail
0/0
In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-l...
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Singing on the Trail
1946
Throw a Saddle on a Star
0/0
The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker to ride in the Big Rodeo. Unsc...
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Throw a Saddle on a Star
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
6.3/34
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to...
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
Destination 60,000
0/0
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Destination 60,000
1944
3 Is a Family
0/0
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his w...
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3 Is a Family
1944
Dancing in Manhattan
6/1
In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not...
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Dancing in Manhattan
1944
She's a Soldier Too
3/1
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
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She's a Soldier Too
1943
Doughboys in Ireland
0/0
According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O'...
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Doughboys in Ireland
1949
Stagecoach Kid
6/2
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire...
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Stagecoach Kid
1952
Skirts Ahoy!
5/3
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small b...
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Skirts Ahoy!
1944
Stars on Parade
0/0
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It"...
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Stars on Parade
1946
Cowboy Blues
0/0
Starring Ken Curtis and the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots, this musical Western is really Lady for a Day with a switch in gender. Rotund...
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Cowboy Blues
1949
Outcasts of the Trail
0/0
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia Whit...
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Outcasts of the Trail
1945
Eadie Was a Lady
4/3
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But tro...
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Eadie Was a Lady
1961
Force of Impulse
2.5/2
A high-school football player is in love with a beautiful blonde classmate from a very wealthy family. He doesn't have the money to take her out, so i...
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Force of Impulse
1944
Nine Girls
5.3/3
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on...
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Nine Girls
1972
Stand Up and Be Counted
7/1
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving a...
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Stand Up and Be Counted
1946
Tars and Spars
4.7/3
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea d...
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Tars and Spars
1963
Gidget Goes to Rome
4.8/12
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of hi...
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Gidget Goes to Rome
1950
Big Timber
0/0
A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bun...
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Big Timber
1964
Bristle Face
0/0
In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to town with his hound dog and tries to teach him to hunt. B...
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Bristle Face
1979
Murder by Natural Causes
6.9/16
An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, a...
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Murder by Natural Causes
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.1/552
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1977
Spider-Man
6.2/185
When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man...
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Spider-Man
1945
A Thousand and One Nights
5.7/15
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it...
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A Thousand and One Nights
1946
It's Great to Be Young
0/0
Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter...
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It's Great to Be Young
1969
The Comic
5.9/10
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitte...
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The Comic
1956
Magnificent Roughnecks
0/0
Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America.
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Magnificent Roughnecks
1971
Love Hate Love
5.8/5
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance w...
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Love Hate Love
1952
Because You're Mine
6.7/3
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
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Because You're Mine
1971
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
6/1
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
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Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1973
A Gift of Terror
0/0
Young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
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