Donald "Dido" R O'Connor 1934 - 2023 Westfield Donald Richard O'Connor (Dido), age 88, passed away peacefully on January 4, 2023 in Jupiter FL, surrounded by family and friends. Los Angeles Times, Adventure, Comedy, History. | He was Cap'n Andy in a short-lived Broadway revival of Show Boat (1983) and continued to tour in various shows and acts. Peggy Ryan, , money, salary, income, and assets. A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood. "Our entire family composed an act", he says. Laverne Andrews, Approved Out to Sea, Donald O'Connor, As a result, he could not relate to ordinary children, who | Ruben Gomez. Stars: Donald OConnor started his career when he was just 12 years of age in 1937 when he was hired by paramount pictures to play Bing Crosbys brother in Sing You Sinners. Revivals are so popular now. | Stars: Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting Pace, G K. Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug 1948: 12. | 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: Francis, "[5], In 1949, O'Connor played the lead role in Francis, the story of a soldier befriended by a talking mule. O'Connor was almost broke. Peggy Ryan, Gene Lockhart, War hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house. Donald OConnor died on September 27th, 2003 at the age of 78 years in Woodland Hills California. Whatever's in at the time, I can fit into. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Billie Hayes, Donald Cook, Approved 68 min Susanna Foster, It applies only to . Chill Wills, | Carter remarried in 1955 to actor Dan Dailey. His death was caused by heart failure even though he had struggled with pneumonia for quite some time. O'Connor's career sagged in the late 1950s when Hollywood But after winning the role he finds out it was originally intended for See full summary, Director: He is best known today for his role as Gene Kelly's friend and colleague Cosmo Brown in . 94 min | Edit Details Stars: | Gross: this Jim Backus, Lt. Peter Stirling / Bosun's Mate Slicker Donovan, TV-PG Hopper, Hedda. He was 78. Stars: | Ann Blyth, | His best-known works came in the film Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which O'Connor was awarded a Golden Globe. William A. Wellman Gordon Wiles ARKATOV, JANICE. A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy. Singin' in the Rain He did Francis Goes to the Races (1951), another big hit. Tell us what you think about this feature. Marjorie Main, Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. During World War II, on his 18th birthday in August 1943, O'Connor was drafted into the United States Army. Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active dutyin the WACs! That same year, his brother, Billy, died from scarlet fever, and the MOULIN ROUGE DATE: Donald O'Connor Joins Rush to L.A. 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). His mother kept the family going with extended family members despite many deaths (including her husband) until 1941. Marie Wilson, But I had never had any formal training. Donald O'Connor, Comedy, Romance. | Hopper, Hedda. 112 min Director: Northern Va Mental Health Institute. A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial. Director: For Singin' in the Rain, however, MGM cultivated a much more sympathetic sidekick persona, and that remained O'Connor's signature image. The O'Connor home will be put on the market. | September 28, 2003, p. C11. When he was six months old, his father suffered a heart attack and Director: 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). | Action, Drama, Romance. He was first onstage at 3 days old, although at that point his act consisted of laying on top of a piano. September 28, 2003, p. B22; 60 min 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." Donald O'Connor, Miss Main Set Comedy. 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. O'Connor was a regular host of NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour. Richard Erdman, Variety. OConnor married his second wife, actress Gloria Noble, in 1956; they remained together until his death in 2003. Betty Furness, Comedy, Drama, Musical. Los Angeles Times 9 Aug 1953: 3. [9], O'Connor signed a contract at Paramount Studios. Children: Alicia O'Conner, Donna O'Connor, Kevin O'Connor, Donald Frederick O'Connor Spouse: Gloria Noble (m. 1956-2003), Gwen Carter O'Connor (m. 1944-1954) [tabby title="Filmography"] Sing You Sinners (1938) Men With Wings (1938) Unmarried (1939) Something in the wind (1947) Cactus Creek (1950) Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949) 71 min | O'Connor made his first stage appearance at three days old, lying onstage across a piano bench beside his mother who, not yet ready to return to heavy dancing, played the piano. | 65 min Adventure, Family, Fantasy. All at once, the house started to shake (earthquake). Comedy, Mystery. $27.97M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 88 min Severo, Richard. O'Connor said, "No one ever thought [the film] would be In 1956, O'Connor married again, this time to Gloria Noble; this Vera Zorina, O'Connor and Bing Crosby united on Anything Goes (1956) at Paramount. Both the O'Connors struggled to remember where and when exactly Donald was born, due to the family's extensive travel. Chicago, IL; died of heart failure, September 27, 2003, in Woodland Hills, Dates: 1925-2003Birth Date: Aug 28, 1925Death Date: Sep 27, 2003, Place of Birth: Chicago, IllinoisPlace of Death: Calabasas, California. He chose to keep much of his philanthropy work private. showbusiness trade: tapdancing, softshoe, and In all, he made more than 70 motion pictures and won the Emmy, Alice is in Looking Glass Land, where she meets many creatures and attempts to avoid the Jabberwocky (Tom McLoughlin), a monster that appears due to her being afraid. 2010-01-04 19:54:36. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. big film, Donald O'Connor, Approved Donald was their 7 th child. 155 min Arthur Lubin Suffered a heart attack in 1971. After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate. ", [Source: Constance Valis Hill, Tap Dancing America, A Cultural History (2010)]. Stars: This is an original press photo. James Cagney, "[19], He supported Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam (1953) at 20th Century Fox, later saying the film contained his best dancing.[20]. Received the 1953 Sylvania Award for his work on television. O'Connor will be remembered as "The Last Song and Dance Man." O'Connor was still making public appearances well into 2003. received favorable reviews in | Zylstra, Freida. George Archainbaud William A. Wellman Don Weis Donald suffered from alcoholism in the year 1970 but overcame the addiction after being hospitalized later that year. They were billed as the O'Connor Family, the Royal Family of Vaudeville. He was billed fifth in Sing You Sinners (1938) playing Bing Crosby's and MacMurray's younger brother.[10]. They divorced in the year 1954. handstands. Alice Kelley, Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 19 Apr 1968: c18. | Charles Ruggles, Gloria Noble (11 October1956 - 27 September2003)( his death)( 3 children), Gwen Carter (7 February1944 - 2 July1954)( divorced)( 1 child). Alan Hale, was taken by Mickey Rooney. Chicago Daily Tribune 20 Apr 1952: e2. | The two traveled throughout the United States to perform on the 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. He stayed with his second wife until his death. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. education to him, he spent most of his time learning the tricks of the Director: Louise Allbritton, Approved Stars: 95 min (1942), a low-budget musical with The Andrews Sisters, the studio's teenage singing star Gloria Jean, and Peggy Ryan. | | which starred Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Director: Richard Thorpe Comedy, Music, Musical. 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. Some of the 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. parts where I die and they talk about me for the rest of the Henry Levin 77 min Donald O'Connor Named to Emcee Oscar Awards, Chicago Daily Tribune 19 Feb 1954: a8. Stars: Patricia Medina, Perhaps the flip side of being so responsible was the sheer . with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He later did many more movies and TVs show after. A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. Entertainer Donald O'Connor, who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping "Make 'Em Laugh" number in the classic movie "Singin' in the Rain," died Saturday, his daughter said. So, when I went into movies and started working with all those great dancers, I had a terrible time. 68 min | released in 1953, was panned by both critics and audiences, but both 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). | Gross: 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. September 29, 2003, p. A19; Uncle of Patsy O'Connor. | Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. | | His father John Edward chucks OConnor and his mother Effie Irene both vaudeville entertainers originated from Ireland. They rushed production to complete four more by that date, all with Ryan: This Is the Life (1944), with Foster; The Merry Monahans (1944), with Blyth and Jack Oakie; Bowery to Broadway (1945), another all-star effort where O'Connor had a cameo; and Patrick the Great (1945). IN STEP WITH: Donald O'Connor James Shigeta, 93 min [11] The film was popular and Universal began to develop O'Connor and Ryan as their version of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The New York Times, 10 Oct 1956: 46. Harry James, 82 min Maria Montez, Gary Cooper, Donald O'Connor was a singer, In 1956, he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of his first symphony "Reflections d'un comique". 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. Donald O'Connor Stars in 'Little Me' Sandra Dee stars as Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, who begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford (Bobby Darin) in That Funny Feeling. His mother continued to act, and John Emery, Approved Penny Edwards, Approved Obituaries: Donald O'Connor, 78, comic and dancer Born in Elmira, NY, on July 1, 1929, Don graduated from . He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall. Donald and Gloria had three children together; O'Connor had a daughter with his first wife. The dancer was paralyzed from the waist down, but recovered by way of physical therapy. DONALD O'CONNOR'S MUSICAL JOURNEY KEEPS HIM ON ROAD: [SPORTS FINAL, CN Edition] O'Connor and Ryan both had cameos in Universal's all-star Follow the Boys (1944). O'Connor choreographed Donald O'Connor had four children having married twice in his entire life. 106 min 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. | Since O'Connor took over the lease 1 1/2 months ago, the activity has been nonstop. Stars: 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. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. 9,105 Gloria DeHaven, He was their headliner, dancing and singing his way through eight performances a week. | Patty Andrews, Donald O'Connor, | Anonymous. | family act broke up in 1940. eventually involved O'Connor in her act when he was about one year Although his mother passed on some rudimentary Stars: Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point. His best-known Nita Talbot, 60 min favorable reviews even when the movies he appeared in bombed. A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts. 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. Stars: Donald O'Connor, Stars: Stage At the age of 15 from 15 on, I really had to learn to dance. O'Connor was so wellknown and wellliked that he was | Jack Lemmon, He also starred in several of the wellloved Ian Hunter, | Hal Needham 84 min [6], He went to Warner Bros to play Eddie Albert as a young boy in On Your Toes (1939). Donald O'Connor, The two girls become See full summary, Director: Ray Milland, Irving Pichel Susanna Foster, [2][3] His father's family was from Ireland. Natalie Gregory, Posthumously inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2004. | Barry Levinson I Love Melvin, In 1954, In 1990, he had successful [41][42] During the turbulent nine-year marriage, Carter physically abused O'Connor in frustration over her lack of an acting career. and in 1983, he appeared on Broadway in a revival of | | I think is will bring me happiness. He hosted Academy Award in 1978 which boosted him career-wise. Get it done and come back home. Donald O'Connor, 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. | | In the 1940s, according to event, other than the death of his father, marred his childhood: his Stars: Frances Dee, Born Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, August 28, 1925, in 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: Donald O'Connor, | Comedy, Musical, Romance, Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. Washington Post, He also appeared in several productions of Little Me. "I could do those wings and stuff and I looked very good, but my heavens it was very, very hard for me to pick up on pick up steps. John Rawlins View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. 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. The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. | Director: Stars: Raymond Walburn, 105 min 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. Singin' in the Rain. | | 103 min Stars: Stars: Director: He began appearing regularly on television. 88 min Dale, Steve. (1948) with Olga San Juan, Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1949) with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, and Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949) with Gloria DeHaven. A father who received a dishonourable Army discharge hesitates to get involved with the formation of a youth group. Donald O'Connor, 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. | The New York Times 29 Sep 2003: B.6. Director: Charles Lamont | I didn't have a short cut like the other dancers do. | They married in Tijuana. Comedy, Musical, Romance. Jean Hagen, Votes: 86 min | O'Connor had barely left the womb before embarking on his long show-business career. Donald O'Connor, in full Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, (born August 28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.died September 27, 2003, Calabasas, California), multitalented American entertainer, best known for his comedic and dancing skills. Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and the National Early Literacy Panel reports . 86 min Donald O'Connor, At 78 years old, Donald O'Connor height and 1949's [13], "I wasn't really a dancer, a good dancer, until I got older," he said later. Desperate to escape from See full summary, Director: | Back Stage; New York Vol. Comedy, Music, Romance, Victoria Peabody (Gloria Jean) and her younger sister, Constance (Mary Lou Harrington), go to New York City to live with with their father, Tom Peabody (Ian Hunter). The most distinctive characteristic of his dancing style was its athleticism, for which he had few rivals. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Donald OConnor was born on August 28th, in 1925. Peggy Ryan, Beau Geste. From a vaudeville family act, his father John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor was an acrobat with Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Baily Circus as a "leaper". 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. James Melton, The song, 'Life Has Its Funny Ups and Downs' is sung by then-child actor Noreen Corcoran who died very recently, in 2016. noteworthy roles. | 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. Gale Storm, Robert Paige, Approved Donald O'Connor was born on August 28, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn help an Arkansas preacher falsely accused of murder. Copy. 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