Highest rated movie: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Lowest rated movie: Easy Living (1949)
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Looking for reviews of Jeff Donnell movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,165 reviews across 26 movies.
Movies starring Jeff Donnell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Sweet Smell of Success - released in 1957 - is Jeff Donnell's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 341 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jeff Donnell is Easy Living - released in 1949 - with a score of 46% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Jeff Donnell has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Robert B. Williams, Forbes Murray and Richard Erdman.
Jeff Donnell has worked with these film directors: Lew Landers, Paul Wendkos, Alfred E. Green and Alexander Hall.
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