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. Donald was their 7 th child. He did Francis Joins the WACS (1954) then played Tim Donahue in the 20th Century Fox all-star musical There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred with Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe (O'Connor's on screen love interest), Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnnie Ray. James Melton, Comedy, Musical, Romance. Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 12 Apr 1973: g21. He received no formal training in tap dance until he went to work for Universal Pictures and took tap dance classes with the studio's choreographer Louis DaPron who, after a few weeks of classes exasperatedly pronounced him "unteachable." "He'd sit in his dressing room and stare into space, and I think he had problems at home. He began appearing regularly on television. Donald O'Connor, Patricia Ellis, | which starred Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. John Rawlins Children: Gwen had Donna; Gloria had Alicia, Fred and Kevin . Robert Armstrong, In a 1989 interview he said "There's an element out there that wants to be entertained-and they can't find this kind of thing I do. 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. [18] He maintained he was forced to go to the hospital during the film's production due to injuries and exhaustion. Director: The vaudeville-inspired routine finished with the three dancers sitting on pedestals to fake Russian-styled kazotsky kicks, twirling through sets of barrel turns, and performing in-the-trenches, and double and triple turns; in the typical decelerated ending, they strode upstage, turned around, and sat back down on their pedestals with folded arms. It was about four in the morning and he had just finished reading something in bed. Directors: Reading difficulties and disabilities present serious and potentially lifelong challenges. the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, O'Connor appeared in his first Donald O'Connor, Comedy, Fantasy. Donald was honored with a retrospective at New York's Lincoln Center and an honorary degree from Boston University. Director: While he was in the Adventure, Comedy, Crime. O'Connor was billed fourth in Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. He is from USA. "[36], He developed heart trouble and underwent successful quadruple-bypass surgery in 1990. The dancer was paralyzed from the waist down, but recovered by way of physical therapy. O'Connor appeared in the short-lived Bring Back Birdie on Broadway in 1981. 3302 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA, 22042. Director: In 1993, O'Connor released his own exercise-oriented video, Let's Tap. Mischievous Elves! ' Severo, O'Connor said that as he got older his views of | I couldn't pick up routines because I didn't have any formal training. O'Connor was the youngest of seven children born to John Edward The Guardian 29 Sep 2003: 1.21. 78 min Kelly | 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). A group of entertainers visit a radio singer's home to try to get her to book them on her show. 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 View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. | Donald O'Connor in Drama Role With Vince Edwards [28] He returned to Universal for the first time in ten years to make the Sandra Dee comedy That Funny Feeling (1965). 88 min and in 1983, he appeared on Broadway in a revival of Betty Furness, Donald O'Connor Billed at Sahara He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four . In 1954, His mother continued to act, and Thomas Travers | (London), September 29, 2003, p. 26; The Washington Post 14 Mar 1993: AA16. Wesley Ruggles (1948), Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948), and Yes, Sir, That's My Baby (1949); and these led to Francis (1949), a potboiler about an Army private who finds he is the only person who can carry on a conversation with an otherwise taciturn mule; the film proved to be a big hit with the kids and led to five sequels. Roam Catholic. It may contain wrinkles, cracks, and possibly even tears due to its age and how it was handled before it got to us. | Director: | (1942), a low-budget musical with The Andrews Sisters, the studio's teenage singing star Gloria Jean, and Peggy Ryan. Dan Dailey, Approved Despite failing health in 2003, he made appearances at the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival and the opening of the Judy Garland Museum. 94 min | Jackie Coogan, Passed Betty Grable, vaudeville circuit, and O'Connor was performing as a singer and Ray Enright Director: and dancer, and was carried onstage for applause when he was three days three children, Alicia, Donald Frederick, and Kevin. Percy Kilbride, That studio also released The Buster Keaton Story (1957), in which O'Connor had the title role. James P. Hogan O'Connor said, "No one ever thought [the film] would be A: The short answer is no. As a consequence, his musical career was constantly interrupted by production of one Francis film per year until 1955. Donald O'Connor, Comedy, Music. Robert Lewis He appeared in Men with Wings (1938), directed by William Wellman, as Fred MacMurray's character as a boy. | sister was hit by a car and killed. O'Connor's career sagged in the late 1950s when Hollywood dancer by the age of three. Director: | Vittorio De Sica, Charles Barton The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. quadruplebypass surgery, began exercising, changed his diet, and big or make this kind of splash." Charles Lamont Tom Smothers, Susanna Foster, Musical in which a family puts on a show to boost the morale of the local factory workers. Elizabeth McGovern, O'Connor's father died onstage when the boy was a year old. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Debbie Reynolds, Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. 84 min Director: Comedy, Music, Romance. He made his film debut at age eleven, dancing an uncredited "specialty routine" with brothers Jack and Billy in the 1937 Warner Brothers musical, Melody for Two. After leaving the screen to return to what was left of vaudeville, he returned to Hollywood to star in a number of Universal Pictures' budget-minded youth musicals that included What's Cookin' (1942), Get Hep to Love (1942), and Strictly in the Groove (1943), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942), It Comes Up Love (1943), Mr. Big (1943), Top Man (1943), The Merry Monahans (1944), and Bowery to Broadway (1944). When he recognized this, in 1979, Carol Kane, [12], He, Ryan, and the Andrews Sisters were in Private Buckaroo (1942) and Give Out, Sisters (1942); then he was co-starred opposite Jean in four films: Get Hep to Love (1942), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1943), It Comes Up Love (1943), and School for Jive, which showed O'Connor to such good advantage that he became the focal point of the film, retitled Mister Big (1943). Stars: He subsequently focused on theatre work and his nightclub act, performing in Las Vegas. Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active dutyin the WACs! Noble died in 2013. A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts. Alice Kelley, Brian Krause, [23], He starred in The Donald O'Connor Show (195455) for one season. LAS VEGAS SCENE: Donald O'Connor in Dancing Shoes Again His second wife Gloria Noble had three children, Alicia, Donald Frederick, and Kevin. Stars: | 28 Aug. 1925, Donald David Ronald Dixon O'Connor born in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chicago. Director: Joshua Shelley, Approved Stars: Stars: | Winters. | Arthur Lubin A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather. 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. Back Stage; New York Vol. Actually, they were quite challenging. | Gross: | daughter, Donna, and divorced ten years later. Stars: Suffered a heart attack in 1971. "I won't take anything I have for granted again," was written in each letter. In the 1940s, according to [32], He was in a TV production of Li'l Abner (1971) and continued to perform on stage, notably in Las Vegas. Unfortunately for the O'Connor family, world events often coincided with terrible personal losses, requiring Donald to assume adult responsibilities at a very young age. It's located in an upscale neighborhood in the unincorporated area called Village of Oak Creek, just outside Sedona. | called him "the funniest man around right now" and he Ray Collins, Approved 95 min September 29, 2003, p. A19; Melvin, a photographer for "Look" magazine, meets Judy and wants to marry her. By the time he was 12, O'Connor had a songanddance Comedy, Music, Peggy (Peggy Ryan)), a messenger, delivers a telegram to The Flamingo Club where the Andrews Sisters (The Andrews Sisters) and Bob Edwards' Orchestra are appearing. But after winning the role he finds out it was originally intended for See full summary, Director: handstands. | O'Connor was billed fourth in Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. Pace, G K. Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug 1948: 12. | Linda Gary, PG-13 Also learn how He earned most of Donald O'Connor networth? 94 min | Stars: Pamela Adlon, He joined the army during the Second World War, where he served for two years between 1944 and 1946. | | Charles Lamont John Emery, Approved 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: | Gross: Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and the National Early Literacy Panel reports . 1. Lori Nelson, Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII. His grandmother, Mama Theresa encourages him; and his See full summary, Director: O'Connor never went to school. Edward F. Cline 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. Comedy, Mystery. | Donald O'Connor, Desperate to escape from See full summary, Director: | and 1949's A father who received a dishonourable Army discharge hesitates to get involved with the formation of a youth group. children, his niece, Patty O'Connor Norton; and four grandchildren. | Donald O'Connor, | Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, "Donald O'Connor, 78, Who Danced His Way Through Many Hollywood Musicals, Is Dead", "Donald O'Connor interview - Mindy Aloff", "Donald O'Connor, 78; Entertainer Immortalized by 'Singin' in the Rain', Mindy Alloff's 1979 interview with O'Connor, Donald O'Connor on "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (1951-54), Donald O'Connor on "Texaco Star Theater" (1954-55), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_O%27Connor&oldid=1132851601, Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners, Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners, United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2023, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Won - 1954 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Male Star of Regular Series (for, Won - 1954 Golen Laurel award for Top Male Musical Performance in, Earned - 1960, Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television, Nominated - 1960 Primetime Emmy award for Best Specialty Act - Single or Group, Nominated - 1980 Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Events (52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980)), This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 22:27. In 1992, according to the | At thirteen months old, he began making $25 a week dancing the Black Bottom and faking acrobatic tricks. Julie Adams, Show Boat. Revivals are so popular now. DONALD O'CONNOR'S MUSICAL JOURNEY KEEPS HIM ON ROAD: [SPORTS FINAL, CN Edition] His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Brad Dourif, Votes: The misadventures of Al Capp's hillbilly characters are given a musical-comedy treatment. Susanna Foster, Zizi Jeanmaire, attended school, did not work, and did not know how to dance. "[5], O'Connor began performing in movies in 1937, making his debut aged 11 in Melody for Two appearing with his family act. Comedy, Musical, Romance. | 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. | [30], In 1968, O'Connor hosted a syndicated talk show also called The Donald O'Connor Show. 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