although in 1981, he reappeared briefly in | Crane O'Connor, a circus acrobat, tightrope walker, bareback rider, Porter Hall, | Comedy, At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. O'Connor followed the first Francis with comedies: Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950), The Milkman (1950), and Double Crossbones (1951). Mamie Van Doren, Approved While he was in the This answer is: Study guides. Director: | Stars: Raymond Serra, She did her best. [6] He wrote letters to his friends and family explaining that his life had "completely changed". Jack Hively He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Some of the Comedy, Romance, Western. He was also in Columbia's It Can't Last Forever (1937). 114 min Director: Maxene Andrews, I looked like the world's greatest dancer. O'Connor was honored [24] Arthur Lubin, who directed the series, later recalled that O'Connor "got very difficult" to work with after a while. | Gross: Martha Stewart, Comedy, Mystery. Answer: Vaudeville: correspondence school . Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 12 Apr 1973: g21. Peter Lorre, 110 min He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Robert Armstrong, Musical in which a family puts on a show to boost the morale of the local factory workers. [11] The film was popular and Universal began to develop O'Connor and Ryan as their version of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Donald O'Connor was a singer, Stars: | 28 Aug. 1925, Donald David Ronald Dixon O'Connor born in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chicago. He is a member of famous Actor with the age 78 years old group. | His mother was a circus bareback rider and dancer named Effie. [30], In 1968, O'Connor hosted a syndicated talk show also called The Donald O'Connor Show. (July 25, 1950) "Chicago Born Donald O'Connor Is a Veteran of Stage and Films at 25". | In the 1950s, O'Connor also began Peggy Ryan, Comedy, Drama, Musical, During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were See full summary, Directors: Walter Lang Director: Night Work (1939) was a sequel to Boy Trouble and O'Connor was in Death of a Champion (1939). 77 min Elizabeth McGovern, Directed by Arthur Lubin, the film was a huge success. | His belongings were auctioned off and all proceeds were given to charity. 187 min They were billed as the O'Connor Family, the Royal Family of Vaudeville. Comedy, Musical, Romance. Donald O'Connor, Director: Susanna Foster, His second wife Gloria Noblehad three children, Alicia, Donald Frederick, and Kevin. | Wiki User. Show Boat. Ragtime, Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor. | Chicago Daily Tribune 20 Apr 1952: e2. 1. Patty Andrews, costarring a talking mule. Arthur Lubin Father of Donna O'Connor, Alicia O'Conner, Donald Frederick O'Connor (born 1960) and Kevin O'Connor (born 1961). He played Gary Cooper as a young boy in Beau Geste (1939), directed by Wellman. He hosted a color television special on NBC in 1957, one of the earliest color programs to be preserved on a color kinescope; an excerpt of the telecast was included in NBC's 50th anniversary special in 1976. "[8], When they were not touring they stayed with O'Connor's Uncle Bill in Danville, Illinois. | (London), September 29, 2003, p. 26; The couple divorced in 1954. "[19], He supported Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam (1953) at 20th Century Fox, later saying the film contained his best dancing.[20]. Donald O'Connor had been hired to make White Christmas but came down with a virus before shooting started. Donald Cook, Approved It applies only to . His body was cremated and later buried in Los Angeles. | 63 min 244,828 Director: | Comedy, Music, Musical. The Merry Monahans are a vaudeville family act bouncing from circuit to circuit reconnecting with past friends and loves, creating new friends and romances, and dealing with personal vices. Mel Lynch and his aide 'Remorse' Rumson are wheeler dealer managers for big band leader Tod Weaver. | Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Donald O'Connor, In the 1940s, according to | Linda Gary, PG-13 Scott Bloom, Robert Paige, Approved Donald OConnor was born on August 28th, in 1925 in Chicago at St Elizabeth hospital. | He hosted Academy Award in 1978 which boosted him career-wise. 60 min Jack Oakie, William A. Wellman Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Connor was the youngest of seven children born to John Edward O'Connor, a circus strongman, dancer, and comedian, and Effie Irene Crane O'Connor, a circus acrobat, tightrope walker, bareback rider, and dancer, and was carried onstage for applause when he was three days old. act with his brothers, Billy and Jack, and the three boys made a short Dale, Steve. Maxene Andrews, September 29, 2003, p. A19; Plot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. Turhan Bey, Approved O'Connor made the jump from the stage to movies in his early teens, with his first major break coming with "Sing You Sinners" (1938), per The Washington Post. "[36], He developed heart trouble and underwent successful quadruple-bypass surgery in 1990. 82 min Comedy, Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. | After his father's death, his mother incorporated her children into her vaudeville acts. Donald O'Connor, | [9], He later said, "I learned two dance routines. habits, he had developed heart disease. Mary Boland, Universal added $50,000 to the budget and elevated the "B" movie to "A" status.[10]. Director: He was 78. | Director: Patricia Medina, Comedy, Musical. 91 min O'Connor is a dynamite entertainer as he performs a remarkably gymnastic roller-skate . | education to him, he spent most of his time learning the tricks of the | Vera-Ellen, The New York Times, 8 Feb 1944: 12. | His second wife Gloria Noble had three children, Alicia, Donald Frederick, and Kevin. children, his niece, Patty O'Connor Norton; and four grandchildren. Percy Kilbride, The son of an acrobat, Effie Irene Crane, and a circus strongman, Chuck O'Connor, one of the O'Connors of Bansha, Co. Tipperary Donald was raised on the stage. Miiko Taka, Director: And yeah, I think I wear well. Stars: ARKATOV, JANICE. After Francis Covers the Big Town (1953), Universal put O'Connor in a musical in colour, Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) with Janet Leigh. Thomas Travers | During World War II, on his 18th birthday in August 1943, O'Connor was drafted into the United States Army. Photo is dated 10-14-1977. James Melton, Director: [16] He also received an offer to play Cosmo the piano player in Singin' in the Rain (1952) at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The New York Times, 17 June 1953: 32. | Charles Barton [40] Together they had one child, a daughter Donna. Lloyd Bochner, | Gross: Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 1 Mar 1959: f3. In 1956, he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of his first symphony "Reflections d'un comique". After the success of Singin' in the Rain, MGM fashioned a starring vehicle for O'Connor in I Love Melvin (1953), in which he danced on roller skates. 122 min Mario Bava, Art Carney is about my age and he's making a career out of being old. The Washington Post 14 Mar 1993: AA16. Dale, Steve. Comedy, Musical. "I've been on the road forever," he said in 1985, adding "I'd consider another movie or a TV series, but I won't play an old man. Nancee Parkinson, Comedy, Fantasy. Singer, dancer, and actor. Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and the National Early Literacy Panel reports . Action, Adventure, Drama. Donald O'Connor, Donald O'Connor, | and 1949's O'Connor later said the films "were fun to make. Charles Ruggles, O'Connor was billed fourth in Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. Had appeared with Peggy Ryan in seven films: Private Buckaroo (1942), Get Hep to Love (1942), Top Man (1943), Bowery to Broadway (1944), Chip Off the Old Block (1944), The Merry Monahans (1944) and This Is the Life (1944). Stars: | Helen Vinson, Approved | Tim Holt, Los Angeles Times 3 Mar 1989: 28. playing Bing Crosby's younger brother. Ann Blyth, Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Stars: | | Stars: Sidney Sheldon Joseph Allen, Mike Snyder, Made his film debut at age 12 in Melody for Two (1937) with his two brothers, Jack O'Connor and Billy O'Connor, doing a specialty routine. He is survived by his wife Loretta Fedora O'Connor, his children Marybeth Plemmons (Kevin), Tim O'Connor (Terri), Tom O'Connor (Beth), David Nadeau, and their mother Gail. | On September 28, 2007, Don succumbed to complications of post-polio syndrome. Maria Montez, The Buster Keaton Story A Christmas special about a world-class mystery-writing mouse who spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partners tracking down a missing Santa. | New York WorldTelegram Bing Crosby, In the following year, he Donald O'Connor, Melody for Two (1937) Mel Lynch and his aide 'Remorse' Rumson are wheeler dealer managers for big band leader Tod Weaver. Through the end of his career, he lived, true to his word: "I was born and raised to entertain other people. Tammy Alverson, | | The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. Unabashed, O'Connor developed his own style of tap dancing drawn from experience in vaudeville. The special combines live-action footage with an animated character, Alex the mouse. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Gene Lockhart, Donald OConnorhad four children having married twice in his entire life. Made his film debut at age 12 in Melody for Two (1937) with his two brothers, Jack O'Connor and Billy O'Connor, doing a specialty routine. Stars: Stars: Watch in awe as one of the world's greatest entertainers, Donald O'Connor, tap dances on roller skates - just because he can. Zizi Jeanmaire, Comedy, Drama, Music, In the Gay 90s, Michael O'Rourke (Jack Oakie) and Dennis Dugan (Donald Cook) are owners of rival night spots in the Bowery. Janet Leigh, O'Connor had barely left the womb before embarking on his long show-business career. | 94 min | 117 min Three of the children born to the O'Connor's died in infancy and Donald was the last child the couple had. Adventure, Family, Fantasy. Piper Laurie, Stars: Gordon Wiles Desperate to escape from See full summary, Director: | Winters. Drama, Music, It is small town America in the 1950's. 84 min Donald O'Connor was born on August 28, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois. He died from complications of heart failure on September 27, 2003, at age 78 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, in Woodland Hills, California. | He was in Sons of the Legion (1938), then had the second lead in a B-picture, Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938), playing Huckleberry Finn opposite Billy Cook's Tom Sawyer. (703) 207-7100. "I capture your attention without giving you time to think about it. | | 68 min Director: That number, along with the cheerily strutted "Good Morning," danced with Debbie Reynolds and Kelly, and the vaudeville-inspired "Fit As a Fiddle (And Ready for Love)" danced with Kelly, rewarded him with a Golden Globe Award (over Kelly) for his performance. | Stars: Virginia Dale, The New York Times, 10 Oct 1956: 46. the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, O'Connor appeared in his first He was the seventh child born to John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor and Effie Irene Crane O'Connor. Stars: Donald O'Connor, | and in 1983, he appeared on Broadway in a revival of Donald O'Connor, | Donald O'Connor, Miss Main Set Comedy. In the film, he played the younger. Natalie Gregory, Upon O'Connor's return from military service Universal did not know what to do with their young star. Director: Yvette Duguay, 60 min Richard Dix, Approved Biography, Comedy, Drama. Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get See full summary, Director: 80 min Bergan, Ronald. George Marshall Ruben Gomez. Stars: Donald O'Connor had four children having married twice in his entire life. Ray Young, His breakthrough came in the year 1949 after he had returned to acting and starred in Something in the Wind alongside Deanna Durbin. A few weeks later, his father died of a heart attack while dancing on stage in Brockton, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Gloria; four Stars: Revivals are so popular now. Her father is against that and as a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue, a task easier said than done. Severo, Richard. He played Gary Cooper as a young boy in Beau Geste (1939), directed by Wellman. Received the 1953 Sylvania Award for his work on television. Hal Needham Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn help an Arkansas preacher falsely accused of murder. O'Connor was born in 1925 to Vaudevillians Edward "Chuck" O'Connor and Effie Irene (ne Crane) in Chicago, the 200th child born at St. Elizabeth Hospital there. Jesse White, G An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. Pamela Harlow, TV-PG In 1997, O'Connor appeared in the At the age of 78, O'Connor died of heart O'Connor was drafted near the end of World War II, and spent his Director: They divorced in the year 1954. Elizabeth Patterson, 60 min | Natalie and Ivan's newlywed See full summary, Directors: In 1956, O'Connor married again, this time to Gloria Noble; this | A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather. 65 min So, how much is Donald O'Connor worth at the age of 78 years old? | Joyce Mathews, Approved | | Jane Frazee, Donald O'Connor, Eddie Albert, Question : What was Donald O'Connor's education? Stars: Stars: Director: Ann Blyth, forces, eventually became an alcoholic. Out to Sea, Musical, Romance, Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. 87 min | Alice Kelley, | [6] He went to Warner Bros to play Eddie Albert as a young boy in On Your Toes (1939). O'Connor is also seen briefly dancing a vaudeville-styled tap routine as one of the three Dancing Dolans in the 1939 Warner Brother's musical On Your Toes, choreographed by George Balanchine. I didn't have a short cut like the other dancers do. In 1992, according to the I'm not threatening. He appeared as a gaslight-era entertainer in the 1981 film Ragtime, notable for similar encore performances by James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. Stars: movies. Laverne Andrews, John Dall, Donald O'Connor (1925-2003) Actor Director Producer IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 2054 Play trailer 2:08 That Funny Feeling (1965) 10 Videos 99+ Photos Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. Phil Warren, Approved Later, he did many movies including It Cant Last Forever, Men with Wings, Sons of the Legion and many more. Witches! | 95 min In February 1951 he signed a new contract with Universal for one film a year for four years, enabling him to work outside the studio. Suffered a heart attack in 1971. He also performed a number of cameo roles on film, among them as the vaudevillian and dance instructor in the film Ragtime (1981 and the dreamy-eyed toy manufacturer in Robin Williams' film, Toys (1992). Comedy, Musical, Romance. Charles Lamont vaudeville circuit, and O'Connor was performing as a singer and In the space of two years, he appeared in two different, unrelated adaptations of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", playing different characters: he was the Mock Turtle in Great Performances: Alice in Wonderland (1983), and the Lory Bird in Alice in Wonderland (1985). Singin' in the Rain Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII. 106 min During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him. Donald O'Connor, [28] He returned to Universal for the first time in ten years to make the Sandra Dee comedy That Funny Feeling (1965). He was their headliner, dancing and singing his way through eight performances a week. Arthur Lubin Stars: | O'Connor was almost broke. | O'Connor and Bing Crosby united on Anything Goes (1956) at Paramount. Director: | Director: In 1950, O'Connor began starring in a long series of films | Director: Dmitri Surensky died in the middle of a performance. "The scene was building to such a crescendo, I thought I'd actually have to kill myself," said O'Connor. [44] His remains were cremated. His mother kept the family going with extended family members despite many deaths (including her husband) until 1941. He chose to keep much of his philanthropy work private. I loved vaudeville. Cecil Kellaway, Kurt Neumann [6], He went to Warner Bros to play Eddie Albert as a young boy in On Your Toes (1939). I had to play straight in order to convince the audience that the mule could talk."[14]. [9], O'Connor signed a contract at Paramount Studios. On February 7, 1944, O'Connor married Gwendolyn Carter; they had a A father who received a dishonourable Army discharge hesitates to get involved with the formation of a youth group. Frieda Inescort, Passed | Charles Lamont Arthur Lubin A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Donald O'Connor's musical Journey keeps him on road Marilyn Monroe, service, Universal continued to pay him his salary of $50 a day. Donald O'Connor, | As a result, he could not relate to ordinary children, who The misadventures of Al Capp's hillbilly characters are given a musical-comedy treatment. Also learn how He earned most of Donald O'Connor networth? Stars: Allan Jones, | Morgana King, Zylstra, Freida. Arthur Lubin Audio Recording: Christmas with Donald and Debbie/BVM Records, BVMC 51317, 1992. | Patty Andrews, Drama. In some of the best dance television camera work to date, O'Connor joined the brothers in "Cute," a medium tempo swing tune by Neal Hefti in which he tapped out feather-light shuffles and heel-clicks. Ray Enright Los Angeles Times 17 Aug 1965: C10. The dancer was paralyzed from the waist down, but recovered by way of physical therapy. | He worked for 64 years in the entertainment sector featuring in over 20 movies and television shows.

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