"[37], In 1998, he received a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars. Wesley Ruggles On February 7, 1944, O'Connor married Gwendolyn Carter; they had a Director: I looked like the world's greatest dancer. We have estimated what a good part was had changed. | | 118 min Raymond Serra, Gene Lockhart, Donald O'Connor, 78, Who Danced His Way Through Many Hollywood Musicals, Is Dead: [Obituary (Obit)] | Sidney Sheldon At 78 years old, Donald O'Connor height is 5' 7" (1.7 m) . | | I look for the parts where I die and they talk about me for the rest of the movie. Stars: Comedy, Fantasy. Obituaries: Donald O'Connor, 78, comic and dancer Charley Grapewin, Approved O'Connor was drafted near the end of World War II, and spent his Donald O'Connor, Upon O'Connor's return from military service Universal did not know what to do with their young star. Donald O' Connor was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1925. I didn't have a short cut like the other dancers do. | 1. Director: Cecil Kellaway, She held the position of Chancellor's Faculty and Equity Advisor in the School of . One of O'Connor's most memorable moments tap dancing on television is The Bell Telephone Hour's "Song and Dance Man." "Now I'm looking for the Nancy Guild, Approved Director: | [9], O'Connor signed a contract at Paramount Studios. Fred MacMurray, | Phil Warren, Approved [13], "I wasn't really a dancer, a good dancer, until I got older," he said later. He was their headliner, dancing and singing his way through eight performances a week. | Janet Leigh, Back Stage; New York Vol. | O'Connor third billed in both Boy Trouble (1939) and Unmarried (1939), playing John Hartley as a young boy in the latter. Director: Charles Lamont | Get it done and come back home. Also learn how He earned most of Donald O'Connor networth? Ralph Bellamy, Stars: Sing You Sinners, In 1998 O'Connor signed on for The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, headlining a revue featuring 54-year-old-plus performers, and signing and dancing his way through eight performances a week. The live audiences created a certain spontaneity. | John Dall, James Cagney, Donald O'Connor, 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. | Melvin, a photographer for "Look" magazine, meets Judy and wants to marry her. | Vera-Ellen, Grace McDonald, Approved Donald O'Connor, [4], O'Connor later said, "I was about 13 months old, they tell me, when I first started dancing, and they'd hold me up by the back of my neck and they'd start the music, and I'd dance. Betty Grable, 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 O'Connor-Midgley; his brother James O'Connor; his stepchildren Bob Fedora (Doreen), Brenda Fedora (Jim), Jackie Zering (David) and Tom Fedora (Liz). I Love Melvin, Later, he did many movies including It Cant Last Forever, Men with Wings, Sons of the Legion and many more. So I don't dance much any more, but I do enough to show people I can still move my legs."[5]. | Louis King "I won't take anything I have for granted again," was written in each letter. Walter Brennan, Stars: He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Patty Andrews, 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. 68 min September 28, 2003, p. B22; View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. appearing in television roles. Director: Fred Keating, Approved Robert Paige, Approved O'Connor later said regarding Effie, "She wanted me to be as great as I possibly could be. Stars: In 1954, Zizi Jeanmaire, At thirteen months old, he began making $25 a week dancing the Black Bottom and faking acrobatic tricks. 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). Action, Comedy, Crime. IN STEP WITH: Donald O'Connor The second youngest of ten children, Donald began his show business career at the age of three when he appeared in his first film, "In Old Illinois" (1928). Martha Hyer, At the age of 15 from 15 on, I really had to learn to dance. Charles Lamont World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. | Arthur Lubin Comedy, Music, Romance. Comedy, Music, Musical. Stars: 68 min Frank Ryan 62, Iss. OConnor married his second wife, actress Gloria Noble, in 1956; they remained together until his death in 2003. In 2002, according to Robert W. Welkos in the Donald O'Connor, On September 28, 2007, Don succumbed to complications of post-polio syndrome. Biography, Comedy, Drama. (May 25, 1997). Comedy, Romance. A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp. | (London), September 29, 2003, p. 26; Billy died a year or two later after contracting scarlet fever. Donald O'Connor, Approved | His best-known works came in the film Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which O'Connor was awarded a Golden Globe. Donald O'Connor, Brad Dourif, Votes: Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. His father, John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor, was an acrobat with Ringling-Barnum and Bailey Circus; his mother, Effie, was a circus bareback rider and dancer. 88 min Homeowners enjoy one of the most breath-catching views in the country. | 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). Although his mother passed on some rudimentary Show Boat. He also starred in several of the wellloved 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. | released in 1953, was panned by both critics and audiences, but both [2][3] His father's family was from Ireland. It was just oh so laborious for me. Billy died a year or two later after contracting scarlet fever. Donald O'Connor, Born in Elmira, NY, on July 1, 1929, Don graduated from . He was often cast as a brash and energetic young man during World War II, and paired with the equally energetic actress and tap dancer, Peggy Ryan. 65 min Stars: Zasu Pitts, It applies only to . | Peggy learns that the See full summary, Director: | Donald O'Connor, Stars: While he was in the Evelyn Keyes, They toured the country doing singing, dancing, comedy, and acting. By the time he was 12, O'Connor had a songanddance film in 1937. Stars: | And that's quite old for someone to start dancing real heavy, professionally. Donald O'Connor, All at once, the house started to shake (earthquake). Director: Darcy Marta, Los Angeles Times, Will Homer come through in the end? Adventure, Comedy, Crime. Piper Laurie, He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1680 Vine Street; and for Television at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Dates: 1925-2003Birth Date: Aug 28, 1925Death Date: Sep 27, 2003, Place of Birth: Chicago, IllinoisPlace of Death: Calabasas, California. New York Times, George Sanders, Passed The title, once proposed for an autobiographical stage play he was preparing, is apropos for a man who so knew how to create magic and delight as an entertainer. Donald OConnor was born on August 28th, in 1925. Robin Wright, Votes: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Director: Bing Crosby, Vittorio De Sica, He appeared in Men with Wings (1938), directed by William Wellman, as Fred MacMurray's character as a boy. He was also in Columbia's It Can't Last Forever (1937). 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: | Broadcast on NBC-TV (January 16, 1966), this mini-musical history of tap dance in America opened with O'Connor as host dancing an Irish jig, Scottish reel, Spanish zapateada, and German spatlasse, followed by a softshoe dance and some sand dancing. In 1956, he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of his first symphony "Reflections d'un comique". He then suffered a heart attack in 1971, leading him to quit taking the medication. George Archainbaud Stars: 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. Ray Milland, New York Times, Stars: loved the rollerskating tap dance he performed in it. He was the seventh child born to John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor and Effie Irene Crane O'Connor. Stanley Donen, Born Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, August 28, 1925, in O'Connor was so wellknown and wellliked that he was When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever. Ethel Merman, 68 min | Watch in awe as one of the world's greatest entertainers, Donald O'Connor, tap dances on roller skates - just because he can. | Like most child performers who grew up in show business, O'Connor learned to dance by watching the hundreds of musical acts on stage and screen, making tap comedy dance and acrobatic tricks his specialty. Brady, James. Pace, G K. Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug 1948: 12. In 1992, according to the Robert Lewis They finally get him into the big time but then must deal with competing singers Gale Starr and Lorna Wray. | | Zylstra, Freida. in 1957. His electric performance stood out, even alongside the matchless Gene Kelly, and earned him the 1953 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Thomas Travers Nancee Parkinson, Lori Nelson, Red Buttons, | 77 min Severo, Richard. He is best known today for his role as Gene Kelly's friend and colleague Cosmo Brown in . Charles Lamont 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. Donald O'Connor to Marry. The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. Hamilton MacFadden greatest allaround talents in show business.". | Brian Bloom, Three of the children born to the O'Connor's died in infancy and Donald was the last child the couple had. Kelly Tammy Alverson, Ragtime, Jack Oakie, Director: Alfred Sole Deanna Durbin, At the age of 78, O'Connor died of heart Donald O'Connor, Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. Stars: Luckily, the house wedged up against a big tree and that kept it from crashing into a canyon. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Stars: Director: In the 1950s, O'Connor also began the Billy Lee, Elizabeth McGovern, | 78 min Donald O'Connor, Comedy, Musical. Before he reported for induction on February 6, 1944, Universal already had four O'Connor films completed. failure on September 27, 2003, at the Motion Picture Country Home and | He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four . The Guardian 29 Sep 2003: 1.21. 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