“Somehow I have learned what prayer is, that to ask for the specific is meanness and only to seek the all good should be the purpose of such communication from the soul. One’s conscience, one’s sense of good and evil make this all plain in time. And all this I learned in my own sort of Sunday School … the dingy theaters of the country … where I started off by worshiping the plain people who attended them!”
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) - Gene Kelly , Debbie Reynolds & Donald O’ Conner
Donald O'Connor on Gene Kelly
... he was such a sweetheart! 💞
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)☔️
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)☔️
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Just a little video for my Old Hollywood favs, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Donald O’Connor🥰 Thank you @crushondonald for your clips!🤗 I hope you like it🤍
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Aw thank you so much!!!❤️ You and your blog are truly AMAZING! I’m so sorry to hear about your tablet being stolen. You are one of the kindest, most wonderful people on here and I thank you for that🤗 You make Tumblr a wonderful place to be💕
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What a perfect album cover! My favorite subject❤️
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Look at that gaggle of Old Hollywood statesmen!🤗
Donald O’Connor, Gene Kelly, Cary Grant & Fred Astaire out and about promoting That’s Entertainment! (1974)
What was so perfect about “That’s Entertainment!,” was that it gave all those wonderful OH stars one final victory lap in the sun as a new generation discovered their greatness!!!💕 (before the internet when clips became widely available). I love watching them wade thru crowds of press & adoring fans (as they should be!!!) instead of fading into obscurity.
They deserved this!🥰🥰🥰
Gene Kelly & Donald O’Conner on The Gene Kelly Show (1959)
“Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) LP
The price of fame …
Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in “Singin’ In The Rain”, 1952
Dignity...always dignity
Born on August 28, 1925 as Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor in Chicago, Illinois
Died on September 27, 2003 in Woodland Hills/L.A., California
“He played to generations of fans – in Vaudeville, in films, in musical shows – and his comic tap dance was a style that he embellished with grace, solid talent, and an honesty that shows through in all his work. He claims he learned comedy because he could not tap dance well. Though this may have motivated his comedy tap, he certainly was well-trained by the top comics of the century throughout his years on the road in American Vaudeville.” Rusty E. Frank, “Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900 -1955”
“I guess I was never impressed with myself as a performer. That’s just something that I learned when I was a child. Like breathing and eating. It’s just something I did. I was never impressed with myself being different than any other kid. Although I never knew what other kids were like. Children used to frighten me. Really, I always thought, they were strange creatures. Little creatures running around without any talent.
That I was out there working with the act, doing hand-balancing and singing and dancing and all of that stuff, it was something that I went out and did. I loved those years on the road. I loved fooling around in front of the audience, I worked very hard. I knew the harder I worked, the more laughs and more applause I got. No one had to teach me that, I could hear it. And that was my thing. That’s what I was there for. And I really lived to do just that.”
Donald O'Connor, 1988
Lá Breithe Shona dhuit A mhuirnín! ~ Happy Birthday Darling 💋!
Thank you for filling my life with so much joy! You have always reminded me to keep on trying to be the best version of myself …
I love and miss you … may angels guard your sleep ✨!
By Anon request, Gene Kelly’s Kennedy Center Honors (1982) I added the beginning & ending segments of the show with Gene’s section only. He’s so cute in that last gif :)
