Donald O'Connor Movies

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Kelly

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ethel Merman

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Robin Williams

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brad Dourif

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: George Raft

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gary Cooper

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sandra Dee

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ethel Merman

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Bandit (Brian Bloom) gets an unexpected and unwelcome visit from his eccentric Uncle Cyrus.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Bloom

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Jean

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Zorina

A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bing Crosby

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Glenn Ford

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.

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Cast: Billy Cook

Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynne Overman

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Jean

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Genre: Music

Cast: James Melton

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Laverne Andrews

At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A Christmas special about a world-class mystery-writing mouse who spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partners tracking down a missing Santa. The...

Genre: Family

Cast: Darcy Marta

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get...

Genre: Music

Cast: Betty Grable

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patty Andrews

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero...

Genre: Music

Cast: Allan Jones

The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Foran

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Montez

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Kane

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Tucci

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

It is small town America in the 1950's. Twelve year-old Angelo Villano has one dream: to someday sing like his idol, Mario Lanza. His grandmother,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentary includes Donald O'Connor, who played the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Contacted by Fred Silverman, the President of NBC, Lucille Ball accepts to go back to work as a producer. With the help of her faithful production...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Lucille Ball

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rock Hudson

The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bing Crosby

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

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...

Genre:

Cast: Lynne Overman

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Anderson

Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as Grauman's Chinese Theater, it immediately drew...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raquel Welch

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kate Burton

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liza Minnelli

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

Ruled by the all powerful Father Frost, the Forest of Enchantment is the most bizarre and remarkable place in the world! Natalie and Ivan's newlywed...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Pamela Adlon