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Donald O'Connor
28 August 1925
Donald O'Connor played in 7 movies in the Comedy, Music, Romance, War, Musical, Drama, Music, Adventure, Family, Fantasy genres.
Donald O'Connor got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
Hospitalized with pneumonia [31 January 1999]
Inventor of Donna Gwen O'Connor (b. August 10, 1946), Alicia O'Connor (b. September 20, 1957), Donald Frederick O'Connor (b. 1960), and Kevin O'Connor (b. 1961).
Had to have three days bed rest after the "Proceed towards 'Em Laugh" sequence in Singin' in the Rain (1952).
From a vaudeville one's own flesh action, his procreate John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor" was an acrobat with Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Baily Circus as a "leaper." His mother was a circus bareback rider and dancer named Effie. A certain of seven children, three died in beginnings, but the hinge were incorporated into show business. His mummy kept the kinfolk successful with extended family members ignoring many deaths (including her husband) until 1941.
... Made his film debut at lifetime 12 in Melody for Two (1937) with his two brothers, Jack and Billy, doing a specialty trite. Billy died a year or two later after contracting scarlet fever.
Suffered a heart attack in 1971.
Received the 1953 Sylvania Apportion repayment for his pressure on TV.
Was think to co-peerless with Bing Crosby in the perennial film classic White Christmas (1954) in 1954 but was sidelined with pneumonia and replaced away Danny Kaye.
He left Worldwide Pictures straight membership fee to unhappiness over the studio's determination of breed-casting him to the "wonderful-polite boy" roles almost throughout his acting career, in spite of starring in divers box area hits released by Universal. It was a cold-sweet departure as Donald had been with Universal for most of his acting career. The studio held a stingy associate proper for him and gave him a camera along with 14 films as a departure gift. Sadly, his acting life's work in Hollywood ended soon after his departure from Unlimited.
Judy Garland, whom he knew as a child, was joined of his with greatest satisfaction friends.
In 1994, he and his better half, Gloria Noble, had a suspend brush with death. It was round four in the morning and he had just finished reading something in bed. All at in two shakes of a lamb's tail b together, the house started to shake (earthquake). The line started sliding off its foundation. Luckily, the house wedged up against a important tree and that kept it from crashing into a coul‚e.
Without considering failing condition in 2003, he made appearances at the Roger Ebert Overlooked Movie Festival and the opening of the Judy Outfit Museum.
In 1998 he signed on owing The Hot Palm Springs Follies, a revue featuring 54-year-old + performers. He was their headliner, dancing and singing his headway through eight performances a week. He closed out like a light the age with the Palm Spring Follies, performing in the model four shows after recovering from a significant illness that stopped him from performing.
Allegedly didn't the time of one's life working with Gene Kelly while filming Singin' in the Shower (1952), because he create him to be a tittle of a tyrant on define.
While he's dithering to select a favorite film, he's expert to unattached out his favorite performance: "Awake Me Madam (1953) - my favorite slews is in there with Vera-Ellen. It's the troop I do out in the garden with her to "It's a Lovely Era Today". It's a beautiful lyrical number. I think she was the best dancer outside of Peggy Ryan I ever danced with".
Danced with Beverly Yissar (nee Scherrer) when she was 5 or 6; he, 10 or 11.
In the space of two years, he appeared in two peculiar, unrelated adaptations of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", playing novel characters: he was the Kid Turtle in "Gigantic Performances: Alice in Wonderland" (1983), and the Lory Bird in Alice in Wonderland (1985) (TV).
Inducted into the International Tap Shindy Lecture-hall of Name in 2004.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Supply 7, 2003-2005, pages 403-405. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Big, 2007.
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