Jeff Donnell
| Jeff Donnell | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jean Marie Donnell |
| Born | July 10 1921 Windham, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | April 11 1988 (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1942 - 1988 |
| Spouse(s) | William Anderson (1940-1953) Aldo Ray (1954-1956) John Bricker (1958-1963) |
| Children | Michael Phineas (b.1942) Sarah Jane (b.1948) |
"Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. Her real name was Jean Marie Donnell. As a child, she adopted the nickname Jeff after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff.[1]
Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers Drama School in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama.[1]
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.
Her other notable appearances in movies and television include:
- Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
- "Butch" in Nine Girls (1944)
- "Alice Gobel" in the George Gobel TV show (1954-1958)
- "Miriam Fisher" in The Iron Maiden (1962; released in the U.S. as Swinging Maiden)
- "Cornelia", an instructor pilot in Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
- "Stella Fields" in the TV soap opera General Hospital (1980-1988)
Jean "Jeff" Donnell died of a heart attack on April 11, 1988. Her sudden absence from General Hospital, on which she had a recurring role as the Quartermaines' housekeeper at the time of her death, was explained by the writers as her having won the lottery and quit her job.
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