Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell; actually Jean Marie Donnell (* July 10 1921 in South Windham, Maine, † 11 April 1988 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.

Career

Before Jeff Donnell 1938, the Leland Powers School Drama graduated in Boston, she attended Towson High School. Later she joined the Yale School of Drama.

In 1942 she was awarded a contract with the Columbia Pictures. That same year, Jeff Donnell made ​​her film debut in My Sister Eileen at the side of Rosalind Russell. In the following years she played alongside international stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant or Anne Baxter.

Since the late 1950s, the actress is almost exclusively seen in television productions, such as in Iceland Fantasy, Cannon, Dr med Marcus Welby, Mr. Ed. She played her last role in the soap opera General Hospital, where she until her death in 1988, Stella Fields embodied by 1980.

Private life

Jeff Donnell had been married four times, including 1954 to 1956 with the actor Aldo Ray. From her first marriage to William Anderson ( 1940-1953 ) had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane.

Your nickname " Jeff" she gave herself as a child himself, he comes from the comic series, Mutt and Jeff.

Jeff Donnell, died suddenly of heart failure.

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