Helen O'Connell
Birthday
1920/05/23
Day of death
1993/09/09 (73 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Lima, Ohio, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s." O'Connell launched her career as a big-band singer with Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies. She was singing with Funk's band in Greenwich Village when Jimmy Dorsey's manager discovered her. O'Connell joined the Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early 1940s with "Green Eyes", "Amapola," "Tangerine" and "Yours." In each of these ...Read more
Acting
(1943) Man That's Groovy
as ---
(1942) The Fleet's In
as Dorsey Band Vocalist
(1943) I Dood It
as Herself
(1943) Au Reet
as Vocalist
(1956) Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Julie
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1964) The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
(1960) Here's Hollywood
as Host
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1959) Startime
as ---
(1954) The George Gobel Show
as Self
(1955) Miss Universe
as Host
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1963) Miss USA
as Presenter