Word: connor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Starring Donald O'Connor...
Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
...Love Melvin (MGM) is a Technicolored song & dance show with little to offer except the animated presence of Donald O'Connor. Cast as a photographer's brash assistant whose main job is lugging flashbulbs, O'Connor falls head over dancing heels in love with a pretty Broadway chorine (Debbie Reynolds),and boastfully promises to get her picture on the cover of his magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...
...yard medley relay--Won by Yale (Thoman, O'Connor, Donovan); 2, Harvard (Mulvey, Emerson, Hedberg); 3, Army; 4, Columbia; 5, Princeton. Time 2:48.4. (Pool and meet record...