Donald O'Connor’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Donald O'Connor has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Singin' in the Rain.
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In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly · With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn

Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.
Dir. Martha Coolidge · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon

as Tim Donahue
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Dir. Walter Lang · With Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack