Jean Marie Donnell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy's reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921. The younger of two daughters, her father (Howard) was a penologist and mother (Mildred) a schoolteacher. Raised in Maryland, she took piano and dance lessons while growing up. It was during her ...
I wasn't the pretty type and I certainly wasn't glamorous, so, I always felt fortunate to be acting. My first concern was for my family, so I never developed a driving ambition. I consider myself a very lucky person.
Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean.
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She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money towards various conservative political causes. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas, and fund-raisers, and she was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
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Lived in Towson, MD during her youth and was a 1938 graduate of the Towson Senior High School.
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Had two children by her (much older) first husband Bill Anderson: Michael Phineas (nicknamed Mickey Finn), born in 1942, and Sarah Jane (Sally), born 1947.
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Had a key role in the critically lauded film Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Tony Curtis' secretary, but her role was cut extensively, including a big romantic scene with Curtis that might have reignited her movie career.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
My Man Godfrey
1957
Molly
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Sally
Destination 60,000
1957
Ruth Buckley
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
Mary Wheller
Playhouse 90
1956
TV Series
Sylvia
Studio 57
1956
TV Series
Ethel Barrymore Theater
1956
TV Series
Matinee Theatre
1956
TV Series
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
Julie
Climax!
1955
TV Series
Kay Matheson
Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson
1955
TV Series
Meet the O'Briens
1954
TV Movie
Schlitz Playhouse
1953-1954
TV Series
Massacre Canyon
1954
Cora
The Ford Television Theatre
1954
TV Series
Doris
Waterfront
1954
TV Series
Marilyn Carr
Omnibus
1953
TV Series
Helen
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1953
TV Movie
Flight Nurse
1953
Lt. Ann Phillips
So This Is Love
1953
Henrietta Van Dyke
The Blue Gardenia
1953
Sally Ellis
Cavalcade of America
1953
TV Series
Ann Rutledge
Racket Squad
1952
TV Series
Because You're Mine
1952
Patty Ware
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
Lt. Giff
Thief of Damascus
1952
Sheherazade
Rebound
1952
TV Series
Annie
The First Time
1952
Donna Gilbert
The Bigelow Theatre
1951
TV Series
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
Alice Raymend
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Gwen
Redwood Forest Trail
1950
Julie Westcott
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
Jane Bixby
Big Timber
1950
Sally
Hoedown
1950
Vera Wright
In a Lonely Place
1950
Sylvia Nicolai
Easy Living
1949
Penny McCarr
Post Office Investigator
1949
April Shaughnessy
Outcasts of the Trail
1949
Vinnie White
Stagecoach Kid
1949
Jessie Arnold
Roughshod
1949
Elaine Wyatt
Screen Snapshots: My Pal, Ringeye
1947
Short
Jeff Donnell
Mr. District Attorney
1947
Miss Miller
It's Great to Be Young
1946
Georgia Johnson
Singing on the Trail
1946
Cindy Brown
Cowboy Blues
1946
Susan Nelson
The Unknown
1946
Nina Arnold
That Texas Jamboree
1946
Jean Warren
The Phantom Thief
1946
Anne Parks Duncan
Night Editor
1946
Martha Cochrane
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
Judy Lane
Tars and Spars
1946
Penny McDougal
Song of the Prairie
1945
Penelope 'Penny' Stevens
Over 21
1945
Jan Lupton
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
Harem Girl (uncredited)
The Power of the Whistler
1945
Francie
Eadie Was a Lady
1945
Pamela 'Pepper' Parker
Carolina Blues
1944
Charlotte Barton
Dancing in Manhattan
1944
Julie Connors
Three Is a Family
1944
Hazel Whittaker
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
USO Hostess (uncredited)
Sensations of 1945
1944
Young Girl (uncredited)
She's a Soldier Too
1944
Mary Fleming (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
1944
Mary Brooks
Once Upon a Time
1944
Girl from Brooklyn (scenes deleted)
Nine Girls
1944
'Butch' Hendricks
There's Something About a Soldier
1943/I
Jean Burton
Doughboys in Ireland
1943
Molly Callahan
What's Buzzin', Cousin?
1943
Billie (uncredited)
A Night to Remember
1942
Anne Stafford Carstairs
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
Winnie Slade (as Miss Jeff Donnell)
My Sister Eileen
1942
Helen Loomis (as Miss Jeff Donnell)
General Hospital
1981
TV Series
Stella
Fantasy Island
1979
TV Series
Mrs. Hoyt
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
TV Movie
Edith Sterling
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
TV Movie
Mrs. Williams
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
TV Movie
Mrs. Mathews
The Bob Newhart Show
1978
TV Series
Clara Hackler
The Amazing Spider-Man
1977
TV Series
Aunt May Parker
The Feather and Father Gang
1977
TV Series
Annie
Chico and the Man
1977
TV Series
Peggy Randall
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
TV Mini-Series
Juror
Matt Helm
1976
TV Series
Ethel
Police Story
1974-1975
TV Series
Mrs. Attles / Martha
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1975
TV Series
Maura
Paper Moon
1974
TV Series
Mrs. Carson
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1974
TV Series
Cleaning Woman
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
TV Series
Betsy Burton
Love, American Style
1971-1973
TV Series
Mrs. Gellar (segment "Love and the Unwedding") / Mrs. Hutton (segment "Love and the Bashful Groom")
Here We Go Again
1973
TV Series
Aunt Patti
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1973
TV Series
Mrs. Cummings
Cannon
1973
TV Series
Mrs. Holt
Barnaby Jones
1973
TV Series
Janet Gossett
Adam-12
1973
TV Series
Mrs. James Nelson
The F.B.I.
1969-1972
TV Series
Mrs. Kraft / Rooming House Manager
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
Ruth
Emergency!
1972
TV Series
Katie
Me and the Chimp
1972
TV Series
Grandma
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971-1972
TV Series
Agatha Dwiggins / Mrs. Dwiggins
The Partridge Family
1972
TV Series
Mrs. Monahan
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1971
TV Series
Nurse Klein
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1971
TV Movie
Rose
Julia
1968-1971
TV Series
Mrs. Bennett
Love Hate Love
1971
TV Movie
Mary Blunden
Medical Center
1970
TV Series
Mrs. Hersey
Bracken's World
1970
TV Series
Joan (Film Editor) / Joan Elliot
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Cornelia
Nanny and the Professor
1970
TV Series
Mrs. Winslow
The Comic
1969
Nurse
Daniel Boone
1969
TV Series
Varna Montgomery
The Felony Squad
1968
TV Series
Mrs. Foster
The Mothers-In-Law
1968
TV Series
Elaine
Gidget
1966
TV Series
Hannah
The Addams Family
1966
TV Series
Eleanor Digby
Dr. Kildare
1966
TV Series
Evelyn Driscoll / Nurse Evelyn Driscoll
Perry Mason
1962-1964
TV Series
Rose Carol / Sylvia Dykes
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1964
TV Series
Mrs. Jarkey
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963
Mrs. Lawrence
The United States Steel Hour
1954-1962
TV Series
Eva Dulaney / Sadie Merrick / Virginia Purdy
The Swingin' Maiden
1962
Miriam Fisher
Mister Ed
1962
TV Series
Martha Harper
Force of Impulse
1961
Louise Reese
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
1961
Dorothy Lawrence
Play of the Week
1960
TV Series
Lucy
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1960
TV Series
Millie Moon
The Ann Sothern Show
1960
TV Series
Helen
Overland Trail
1960
TV Series
Jennifer Dean
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1959
TV Series
The George Gobel Show
1955-1957
TV Series
Alice / Mrs. Hunter
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
"The Strawberry Blonde on the Strawberry Roan" / performer: "Bonnie Bonnie Braes of Wyoming"