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Gloria Jean appeared in five of Donald's early Universal pictures, What's Cookin', Get Hep To Love, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, It Comes Up Love and Mister Big. Like Donald, she started out in
Vaudeville and entered films in the late thirties as a child star. She appeared in films until the early sixties.
Happy Valentine's Day! And welcome to our
special tribute to Donald O'Connor and some of the women who played opposite
him in all those romantic, albeit funny, movies. We've chosen these seven actresses
because they appeared in more than one of Donald's movies. Their names are linked
to the Internet Movie Database
And also we want to add a special mention of a talented lady, who passed away January 18th 2001 at the age of 81, Virginia O'Brien. She appeared in "Francis in the Navy" as one of Peter's kissing medicos, Nurse Kittredge. Obituary.
And here comes our Loving Leading Lady now....
"Donald would walk into the school house - the little canvas school house on the set- wearing his teenage sweaters and I couldn't concentrate on my schoolwork, I was so crazy about him." -- Gloria
Jean in Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
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Peggy Ryan was paired as a dancing partner with Donald
in the Jivin' Jack's and Jills, a troupe of
young dancers at Universal. The couple quickly became popular and went on to make a series of musicals for the studio. In some of these Peggy was Donald's romantic interest, but in others she would be his sister, or just a friend, but in any case still his dancing partner.
For more on Peggy here's our Birthday Tribute |
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Helena Carter appeared as Donald's love interest in
Something in the Wind (as the snobby
Clarissa) and in Double Crossbones. Though her career as an actress
was relatively short, from 1947 to 1953, she did
star in the classic, Invaders from Mars.
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Piper Laurie played opposite Donald in The Milkman and Francis Goes to the Races. Like Donald, Piper is given to a career that comes in stages. Her career as a young ingenue in frothy fifties movies, gave way to a period of stage work and eventually an Academy Award nominated performance in The Hustler. This was followed by a fifteen-year hiatus from Show Business. She would then make a comeback with the movie Carrie. She's had an active career ever since then, including the role of Catherine on Twin Peaks. For loads of information visit the Piper Laurie Shrine |
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Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor appeared together in
two pictures, There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) and Anything Goes (1956). In the first they played brother and sister. In the second they were romantically paired. They also worked together in a number of television specials. |
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Debbie Reynolds' first movie with Donald was, of course, Singin' in the Rain, where Gene Kelly was her romantic interest. But the next movie MGM put them in together was I Love Melvin, where Debbie was the "I" and Donald was the "Melvin". It was not such a success that MGM was tempted to ever pair them again.
But during Debbie's long and thriving career she's worked with Donald quite a lot in television, stage shows, video and on the album, Christmas with Donald and Debbie. Debbie's Official Site.
It wasn't until thirty-five years later that Donald told me the reason Gene always picked on him. It was because he was always mad at me. But he realized if he kept screaming at me I'd probably hold up production with my tears. So he screamed at Donald who wouldn't cry. -- Debbie Reynolds, Debbie: My Life |
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Gloria DeHaven was in two movies with Donald. The first
was, Yes Sir That's My Baby, (1949) in which they
played a young married couple. Their next film wouldnot be for nearly fifty years; Out to Sea (1997). |
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