Donald O'Connor Movies

An in-depth look at the early days of television and its first stars.

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and...

A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years...

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and...

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth...

Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells...

Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him...

Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on...

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note...

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a...

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.