#Donald O’Connor

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

#movies #polls #singin’ in the rain #singin in the rain #50s movies #musicals #stanley donen #gene kelly #old hollywood #donald o’connor #debbie reynolds #requested #have you seen this movie poll

[pimpernelthescarlet]

There’s something about this man I love him

#donald o’connor

[admiralgiggles]

#Chrissy the Christmas Mouse #Debbie Reynolds #Donald O’Connor #25 days of christmas #christmas music #Youtube

[agallimaufryofoddments]

It’s midnight and I just spent a fair bit of time / energy on writing a maximum length Reddit comment vouching for Donald O’Connor portraying Buster Keaton in the egregiously inaccurate 1957 film “The Buster Keaton Story,” because he was the only relevant person actually heeding (and soliciting) Keaton’s input—

—and listen, listen, he was the absolute right person to portray Keaton (if one has to portray him), it’s just that Keaton was written by the wrong hands. I pulled out a 1960 WaPo article and linked to that bit in the 1987 Keaton documentary where O’Connor is interviewed None of the writers paid Keaton’s opinions any mind, and Keaton never held the movie against O’Connor, whose efforts he praised, I believe—

—damn good effort, thank you. Listen, O’Connor had the athletic and personable sensibilities to do Keaton justice, and he was undergoing the same personal troubles that Keaton had: didn’t get child custody post-fraught divorce, was imbibing alcohol a fair bit… (they both were born into Vaudeville, by the way), he was just so talented and he remains one of my absolute favorite performers of that crowd.

They had one of the few people who really honestly could have done Keaton justice…and they did an injustice to Buster, Donald, and frankly Buster’s wife Eleanor with that film.

Well, at least it paid for the Keatons’ ‘ranch’ (final home).

#Donald O’Connor #Buster Keaton #The Buster Keaton Story (1957) #this is not the Reddit comment this is me just telling the void that Keaton and O’Connor were done early #context: in the comments of an r/television post about Rami Malek being considered as Buster for a film #someone said people should leave the greats alone their works speak for themselves—and cited the terrible 1957 O’Connor film #they almost certainly were referring to the obvious issues of the film and not to O’Connor (it’s not his fault Keaton is unfairly written) #I just leaped to clarify for the unaware why the film was terrible #and at the excuse to talk about O’Connor.

[stesichoreanpalinode]

@hotvintagepoll now Ethel Merman needs votes time to bring out the heavy propaganda: Ethel duetting with a bespectacled Donald O’Connor

#hollywood musicals #ethel merman #donald o’connor #Youtube

[ghassanrassam]

Donald O’Connor 1925-2003..a real entertainer

#Donald O’Connor

[giraffe44]

I Love Melvin, 1953, Is Playing on TCM on August 6 (USA)

I Love Melvin, 1953, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday, August 6 at 4:30 p.m. est. Okay, I Love Melvin isn’t a Robert Taylor movie.  It is a fun movie with a delightful cameo by Mr. Taylor. Robert Taylor and Debbie Reynolds in “I Love Melvin.” This film is an absolute delight from the pre-credit sequence where Debbie Reynolds writes the title of the film in lipstick on a mirror to…

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#1953 #celebrities #dancing #Donald O’Connor #entertainment #Gene Kelly #Golden Era #I Love Melvin #matinee idol #MGM #Robert Taylor #singing #TCM #Technicolor

[kelpiegry-art]

I'm becoming addicted to slightly shabby old Hollywood musicals and Anything Goes (1956) in particular really tickles me. Just look at them!!! I think they're so fun :)

#I’ve got so many sketches of Donald O’Connor now it’s just a question of which ones I’ll finish. but you’ll see more of him for sure #Mitzi gives such unhinged comedic performances and I think she’s really underrated for it #yes Cole Porter fans they do butcher a lot of the songs. worst Anything Goes version i know and i love that song #and the whole plot. it’s a musical of theseus type thing. I still like it #anything goes #anything goes 1956 #bing crosby #zizi jeanmaire #mitzi gaynor #donald o'connor #artists on tumblr #digital art #filmblr #fanart #hollywood golden age #hollywood musical #my art #kelpiegry-art #2023

[bitchycasenthusiast]

Liking entertainment from the 1920s-30s is a curse. The threat of blackface (slash other grotesque racial performances) is always looming.

#my favorite Jeeves and Wooster novel (so far) is thank you Jeeves #and my favorite Fred and ginger movie is swing time #also technically 1940s #but my favorite Donald O’Connor and Peggy Ryan picture is Mr. Big #do you know what this does to a person #and now I’m following along with blank check’s Buster Keaton miniseries and they’ve gotten to the movie with an extensive blackface scene #you can’t escape it!!!! it had such a chokehold on American comedy!!!!!!! #aaaahjhheifbgbsjfjbwjs #personal

[musicalfilm]

musical films leading men [pt. 1]

christopher plummer, the sound of music fred astaire, you were never lovelier danny kaye, on the riviera gene kelly, for me and my gal donald o’connor, call me madam bing crosby, here is my heart

#filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #classicfilmsource #classicfilmblr #filmgifs #fyeahmovies #christopher plummer #the sound of music #fred astaire #danny kaye #gene kelly #donald o'connor #bing crosby #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #m: the sound of music (1965) #m: you were never lovelier (1942) #m: on the riviera (1951) #m: for me and my gal (1942) #m: call me madam (1953) #m: here is my heart (1934) #* #*gifs #bw #c #1k #don't mind me i'm just procrastinating

[vintage-every-day]

Donald O'Connor, left, Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds star in the 1952 hit musical 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏’ 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏.

Debbies breakout role would come in 1952, when she played aspiring actress Kathy Selden opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏’ 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏. That movie catapulted Reynolds, who could barely dance a step when she first met Kelly on set, to stardom. She went on to make movies like 𝑻𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒓, in 1957, which gave her a number one hit on the Billboard charts, 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝑾𝒐𝒏 in 1962 with Gregory Peck and 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 in 1964, for which she received an Oscar nod.

#vintage #golden era #movies #old hollywood #gene kelly #debbie reynolds #donald o'connor

[balladofsallyrose]

DONALD O’CONNOR as Kenneth Gibson Call Me Madam (1953) dir. Walter Lang

#donald o'connor #call me madam #50s #filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit

[agallimaufryofoddments]

I say now’s a good time also to rewatch Danny Kaye on The Muppet Show. I can do that and rewatch The Court Jester on repeat for the rest my life, though this would compete with rewatching Sweeney Todd (for the nth time), and, with respect to Lansbury, Bedknobs and the rest I associate her with.

(I am, I admit, somewhat chagrined that the headlines default to Beauty and the Beast when addressing Lansbury’s legacy. I don’t mean to diminish voice acting roles at all; surely they were meaningful. Perhaps I am flawed to think her live-action roles ought to be mentioned first! I understand the layman would understand BatB; I realize why the reporters lead with the animated Disney film. Of course they do. Most people will know her from the Disney film. I just want Lansbury’s rich career to be….)

…Oh, fiddlesticks. Once Dick van Dyke passes (which won’t be anytime soon, the man’s sprightly as ever; anyways love him), the media headlines will be full of Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and maybe Night at the Museum. Not the Dick van Dyke Show.

Give the DvD Show the respect it deserves! Give Angela Lansbury the respect that her lo g career deserves! Yeah yeah, Disney, big company an d all that, saccharine The Court Jester and her other films. Then Sweeney Todd. Which all the theater nerds (moi) know about but you might as well watch. We can put aside all her other acting credentials (except actually go watch The Court Jester and that what she’s been in outside of Disney.))

#yes I’m tipsy #but I still resent the headlines defaulting to beauty and the beast #I don’t blame them! it’s the safest commen de omjbsyor #denominator #it’s more likely people have watched Disney’s Beauty over #say #Bedknobs and The last unicorn (both childhood memories) #I get it. I’ll get it when they remember Dick van Dyke by Disney isstesf of his own show #but HEY. it’s my blog #I’ll emphasize respect where it’s due. #still not quite over Gene Wilder I admit #and man…I loved (love) Donald O’Connor #who passed when I was what - seven?

[merelygifted]

Sinéad O’Connor Estate Orders Trump to Quit Using Her Music “Immediately” | The New Republic

Sinéad O’Connor has a posthumous message: Fuck Donald Trump.

On Monday, the Irish musician’s estate issued a missive to the GOP front-runner, demanding that Trump never again use her music after he featured her breakout hit, a cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” during rallies in Maryland and North Carolina over the weekend.

“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness, and decency towards her fellow human beings,” read a joint statement issued by O’Connor’s estate and her longtime label, Chrysalis Records. “It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies.”

“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil,’” they continued.

“As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from using her music immediately.”  ...

#Sinéad O’Connor #copyright #SEDITION #SUBVERSION #domestic terrorism #ESPIONAGE #crime #EVIL #conspiracy idiots #election interference #magats #WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK RETHUGLICANTS?! #rethuglicants #conservative politics #reach complete enlightenment #capitalism #corruption #screw the people #screw the voters #screw the workers #screw the poor #screw the old #screw the environment #screw the economy

[justbusterkeaton]

Donald O’Connor talks about recreating the stunt from Sherlock Jr. For the 1957 Biopic “The Buster Keaton Story”

From the documentary “Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

#buster keaton #donald o'connor #the Buster Keaton story #silent movies #1924 #1957 #1950s cinema #comedy #1920s #silent film #silent comedy #stunts #hollywood #slapstick #1920s cinema

[mostlydaydreaming]

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor

#singin’ in the rain☔️ #gene kelly #debbie reynolds #donald oconnor