Donald O'Connor

...with the song "Make 'Em Laugh," you should go out and rent "Singin' in the Rain" as soon as possible. The number is comedian Donald O'Connor's most famous performance. Tonight Joseph Gordon-Levitt opened "Saturday Night Live" with a...

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...the musical Singin' in the Rain. Can't fault J G-L for not having a great singing voice, and he applied some heroic effort to do Donald O'Connor's walking-up-walls choreography. Gordon-Levitt pulled it off, although in the process making...

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You can just tell what a musical theatre geek he is too. I mean, I can't think of any major actor who would choose to revive Donald O'Connor's iconic, magnificent, physical, tour de force performance of "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' in the...

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...(rim shot)! Oh, and just to prove that nobody slouched when recreating this moment, here's a refresher of what Donald O'Connor's original "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singing In The Rain looks like: Throughout the course of the...

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...Miss Taylor Swift and Mr. Joseph Gordon Levitt and how very well they did. Though I had to wonder how many even knew who Donald O'Connor was when Mr. Levitt did that acrobatic homage Saturday. Tom Shales: Thanks. Very nice of you. Maybe...

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...whenever it airs -- it was one of the best installments in a long time. Paul Farhi: I liked JGL's impersonation of Donald O'Connor in "Singing in the Rain", but other than that, I thought it was one of the lesser installments of a...

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