Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell

Рождение : 1921-07-10, Windham, Maine, U.S.

Смерть : 1988-04-11

История

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.

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Jeff Donnell
Jeff Donnell
Jeff Donnell

Фильмы

Portrait of a Stripper
Edith Sterling
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 her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
Rendezvous Hotel
Mrs. Williams
A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective series.
Murder by Natural Causes
Mrs. Mathews
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, and the wife's ham-actor lover -- not only an intriguing who- (or whether) dunit, but also a literate, adult dramatic puzzle with an endless series of twists.
Spider-Man
Aunt May Parker
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.
A Gift of Terror
Mrs. Cummings
Young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
Stand Up and Be Counted
Ruth
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 at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Rose
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
Love Hate Love
Mary Blunden
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 who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
Тора! Тора! Тора!
Cornelia
Драма, посвященная событиям 7-го декабря 1941 года, когда японская армия нанесла сокрушительный удар по военно-морской базе США — Перл Харбор.
The Comic
Nurse
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 bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Bristle Face
Mrs. Jarkey
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. Bristle Face is unskilled, but he shows remarkable ability in tracking down foxes. Jace stays with a kindly shopkeeper who defends the boy and Bristle Face against the sheriff whom they have angered.
Gidget Goes to Rome
Mrs. Lawrence
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 his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
The Iron Maiden
Miriam Fisher
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Force of Impulse
Louise Reese
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 in his desperation he robs his own father's grocery store. Things go downhill from there.
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Dorothy Lawrence
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" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...
Мой дворецкий Годфри
Molly
Эксцентричное семейство Буллок каждый год устраивает соревнование, одной из целей которого является найти какое-нибудь животное. Поиски приводят сестёр Айрин и Корделию на мусорную свалку, где они встречают загадочного человека по имени Годфри (чья фамилия тоже Годфри), который выглядит, как бродяга, но обладает изысканными манерами. Айрин приглашает незнакомца в свой дом и выигрывает с его помощью соревнование. Затем она предлагает Годфри занять должность их дворецкого. Годфри с лёгкостью принимает причудливые порядки, царящие в доме, и безупречно справляется со своими обязанностями, продолжая уходить от вопросов о своем прошлом. Между тем ему есть, что скрывать.
Сладкий запах успеха
Sally
Сидни Фалько мечтает о том мгновении, когда он будет управлять судьбами людей и плевать на них сверху, как это делает его кумир и лучший друг Джей Джей Хансекер. Но Джей Джей зол на Сидни: он поручил своему протеже разлучить Сьюзен, сестру Хансекера и джазового гитариста Стива. Сидни лезет из кожи вон, чтобы его благодетель снова стал милостив.
Destination 60,000
Ruth Buckley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Mary Wheller
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 Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
Magnificent Roughnecks
Julie
Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America.
Massacre Canyon
Cora
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
Flight Nurse
Lt. Ann Phillips
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
So This Is Love
Henrietta Van Dyke
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
The Blue Gardenia
Sally Ellis
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
Потому что ты моя
Patty Ware
Известный тенор Ренальдо Россано призван в армию. Его сержант Баттерсон является огромным почитателям его таланта. Баттерсон уговаривает Ренальдо прослушать его сестру певицу, работающую на одной из радиостанций. Тенор неохотно соглашается, но, увидев Бриджит и услышав ее сопрано, сразу влюбляется и в девушку, и в ее голос. Очарованный талантом девушки он предлагает ей руку, и сердце, но Бриджит отказывает ему. Она боится, что не впишется в образ его жизни. Ренальдо расстроен, он не находит себе места, чувства переполняют его, он на грани отчаяния... И только помощь друзей и личное упорство помогут ему вернуть любимую.
Skirts Ahoy!
Giff
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 boat, but their love life.
Thief of Damascus
Sheherazade
A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
The First Time
Donna Gilbert
A married couple welcomes their first child.
Three Guys Named Mike
Alice Raymend
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
Walk Softly, Stranger
Gwen
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Redwood Forest Trail
Julie Wescott
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 boys.
The Fuller Brush Girl
Jane Bixby
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Big Timber
Sally
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 bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.
Hoedown
Vera Wright
A movie cowboy scrambles to salvage his career after his latest movie turns out to be a flop.
В укромном месте
Sylvia Nicolai
Диксон Стил, талантливый голливудский сценарист, сидит без работы из-за пьянства и язвительного характера. В один роковой вечер он пригласил к себе Милдред, чтобы поговорить о повести, предложенной ему для адаптации. Через какое-то время алкоголь и болтовня девушки так утомили Стила, что он выгнал ее. А утром Милдред нашли мертвой и обезображенной… Все улики указывают на Стила, лишь начинающая старлетка Лорел Грей верит в его невиновность.
Easy Living
Penny McCarr
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Post Office Investigator
April Shaughnessy
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
Outcasts of the Trail
Vinnie White
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
Stagecoach Kid
Jessie Arnold
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 on his ranch, bringing in tow his daughter, tomboy Jessie, who despises western life and can't wait to run off back to San Francisco. Stagecoach line owner Dave Collins and his sidekick Chito show up just in time to deter the attackers. Collins isn't done yet, though, as a gold shipment sent on one of his stages is stolen by Parnell and Clint, one of whom is recognized by Jessie, attempting to escape back to the west coast. Collins has his hands full trying to retrieve the stolen gold, and dealing with Jessie, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with him.
Roughshod
Elaine Wyatt
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 behind bars. Clay and Steve unexpectedly cross paths with a group of dance hall girls -- including Mary, Marcia and Helen -- whose stagecoach has broken down, and help them get to the nearest ranch, where Lednov unfortunately catches up to Clay.
Mr. District Attorney
Miss Miller
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
It's Great to Be Young
Georgia Johnson
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 of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.
Singing on the Trail
Cindy Brown
In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, whose father (the rotund Guy Kibbee) loses his ranch to the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, the Hot Shots have been swindled by a couple of Eastern crooks (Ian Keith and Matt Willis) and consider themselves the lawful owners. Chased by the irascible Wyatt, the band members seek protection from aspiring singer Curt Stanton (Curtis), who they mistake for a gunslinger.
Cowboy Blues
Susan Nelson
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 Guy Kibbee is Dusty Nelson, the handyman at the Bar B dude ranch, whose daughter Susan is arriving with her socialite fiancee, Jerome Winston. Susan believes her father owns the ranch, and to spare Dusty any embarrassment, the Hot Shots, ranch manager Curt Durant and sidekick Big Boy Stover agree to continue the deception.
The Unknown
Nina Arnold
"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 inheritance.
That Texas Jamboree
Jean Warren
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 place as a private club. When Curt decides to run for Mayor, he is made to shut down the popular Warren medicine show. With Curt now out of favor the Warrens decide to run their daughter for Mayor and Brady has a plan to stop her also.
The Phantom Thief
Anne Parks Duncan
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 the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Night Editor
Martha Cochrane
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Judy Lane
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. Unscrupulous John Burton has bet against Curt and does his best to sabotage the event. When lovely Barbara Allen, Curt's new girlfriend, leaves town because of Burton's schemes, Curt loses the first couple of events. The big Bronco Busting contest is coming up, and Pop Walker stalls the proceedings with a series of singing acts while the girl's brothers attempt to locate her. Barbara arrives just in time to spur Curt on to victory.
Tars and Spars
Peggy McDougal
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 duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
Song of the Prairie
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
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 and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east
Over 21
Jan Lupton
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.
Тысяча и одна ночь
Harem Girl
Брат-близнец султана Багдада с помощью коварного визиря захватывает трон. Ему противостоит бродяга Аладдин, влюбленный в принцессу Армину. С помощью верного друга Абдулы и джинна (вернее, очаровательной "джинни" из волшебной лампы), отважному герою удается восстановить справедливость и получить руку и сердце прекрасной принцессы.
The Power of the Whistler
Frances 'Francie' Lane
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 items in his pockets.
Eadie Was a Lady
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
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 trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art
Carolina Blues
Charlotte Barton
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
Dancing in Manhattan
Julie Connors
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 know that the money represents the spoils of a blackmailer's scheme.
3 Is a Family
Hazel Whittaker
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 wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
She's a Soldier Too
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Stars on Parade
Mary Brooks
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" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
Nine Girls
"Butch" Hendricks
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 their own to unmask the killer.
There's Something About a Soldier
Jean Burton
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Doughboys in Ireland
Molly Callahan
According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O'Keefe, who is drafted into the army along with a Ritz Brothers-like quartet called The Jesters. Stationed in Ireland, Danny believes that his New York sweetheart Gloria (Lynn Merrick) has forgotten about him, thus he inaugurates a romance with Irish colleen Molly Callahan (Jeff Donnell).
Незабываемая ночь
Anne Stafford Carstairs
Молодая супружеская пара снимает квартиру в мрачном полуподвальном помещении в квартале Гринвич-Виллидж, надеясь что это обеспечит мужу-писателю нужную атмосферу для создания новой книги. Их соседи оказываются весьма загадочными и неприятными личностями. Зловещая атмосфера дома оказывается весьма подходящей для их первоначального замысла, но вскоре они сталкиваются с реальной тайной, обнаружив в своей квартире труп, и решают начать собственное расследование...
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Winnie Slade
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Моя сестра Эйлин
Helen Loomis
Сестры Рут и Эйлин переезжают из Огайо в Нью-Йорк в надежде построить собственную карьеру. Рут грезит о работе писателем, а Эйлин надеется добиться успеха на сцене. Но живут они в мрачной подвальной квартире в Гринвич-Виллидж, где никогда нет тишины и покоя. Им посчастливится встретиться с редактором журнала Бобом Бейкером, который лично заинтересован помочь им с карьерными планами.