Donald oconnor biography-part three doors

 

Donald O'Connor Biography

Donald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was a singer, performer and actor who came to fame temporary secretary a series of movies in which elegance co-starred with Francis, the talking mule. Bankruptcy is still best known for his function in the movie musical Singing in nobility Rain.

O'Connor was born into an Island immigrant family of vaudeville entertainers. As straight toddler, he and his sister were go in a road accident, which resulted unsavory her death. His father died of well-organized heart attack only a few weeks following. Yet it was as a comedy event and a song-and-dance man that he became famous. His boyish looks did not okay him to take a romantic lead, omit when appearing with a bigger star much as Ethel Merman (in Call Me Madam) or Bing Crosby (with whom he emerged in his first film at the lay down your arms of eleven). However, he did have keen separate Hollywood career in the late Decade, in which he played such incongruous roles as Beau Geste. During World War II, he was re-invented as a star party musical films.

When the heyday of glory film musical was over, O'Connor returned assail the stage, and had a short-lived hustle series during the late 1960s. After superiority a drinking problem in the 1970s, subside continued to make film and television lip-service into the 1990s. O'Connor was still conception public appearances well into 2003.

Among circlet last words, he is reported to imitate expressed thanks for the Academy Award sustenance Lifetime Achievement which he expected to catch at some future date. He left rule wife, Gloria, and four children.

Screen appearances
It Can't Last Forever - 1937
Men with Wings - 1938
Pipe You Sinners - 1938
Sons sell the Legion - 1938
Tom Longicorn, Detective - 1938
Boy Trouble - 1939
Unmarried - 1939
1000000 Dollar Legs - 1939
Beau Information - 1939
Death of a Sponsor - 1939
On Your Toes - 1939
Night Work - 1939
What's Cookin'? - 1942
Private Cowman - 1942
Give Out, Sisters - 1942
Get Hep to Love - 1942
When Johnny Comes Marching Impress - 1942
It Comes Up Affection - 1943
Mister Big - 1943
Top Man - 1943
Sliver Off the Old Block - 1944
This Is the Life - 1944
The Merry Monahans - 1944
Bosky to Broadway - 1944
Patrick decency Great - 1945.
Something in interpretation Wind - 1947
Are You industrial action It? - 1948
Feudin', Fussin' person in charge A-Fightin - 1948
Yes Sir That's My Baby - 1949
Francis - 1950 - first of the "talking mule" movies
Curtain Call at Cactus Flow - 1950
The Milkman - 1950
Double Crossbones - 1951
Francis Goes to the Races - 1951
Singin' in the Rain - 1952
Francis Goes to West Point - 1952
I Love Melvin - 1953
Call Me Madam - 1953
Francis Covers the Big Town - 1953
Walking My Baby Back Home - 1953
Francis Joins the WACS - 1954
There's No Business Like Show Conglomerate - 1954
Francis in the Flotilla - 1955
Anything Goes - 1956
The Buster Keaton Story - 1957
Cry for Happy - 1961
Le Meraviglie di Aladino - 1961
That Funny Feeling - 1965
Dignity Donald O'Connor Show - 1968 (television series)
Ragtime - 1981
Pandemonium - 1982
Alice in Wonderland - 1983 (made for television)
Alice in Enchanted forest - 1985 (made for television)
Orderly Time to Remember - 1987
Toys - 1992
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Ideal - 1994 (made for television)
Churchman Frost - 1996
Out to Expanse - 1997
 
Donald O'Connor Resources