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Donald O'Connor thinks, with good reason, that television is wonderful. After 14 years in Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures. But after one guest appearance on TV with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such...
Circus Leaper. As O'Connor sees it, the reason for his TV success is that television closely approximates the conditions of vaudeville, and vaudeville is where he learned all he knows about show business ("I had my first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald...
...dances in the show, wrote part of the skits, ad-libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call Me Madam ("After all, I'd seen the show before"), conferred with Cartoonist Gene Cibelli, his collaborator on a book satirizing life in Hollywood, and listened to new tunes submitted to his music-publishing house of O'Connor & Miller...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC) Starring Donald O'Connor...
Chances are slimmer in the other events. In the 100, Dave Hedberg must face Frank Chamberlain and Donovan--who is the fastest Yale sprinter in almost ten years. In the 200-yard breast-stroke, Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson will have to beat record-breakers Smith an O'Connor...