GLORIA (MRS. DONALD) O'CONNOR - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 270444
Price: $90.00
GLORIA O'CONNOR
Actor and dancer Donald O'Connor's second wife Gloria O'Connor wrote
and signed this letter, on her personalized stationery, to comedian Phyllis
Diller in 1980. She wrote to say that her husband enjoyed working with her:
"We both adore you (no - we're not gay!!) Ha!". Accompanied by original
mailing envelope.
Autograph letter signed "Gloria [smiley]". Blue ink marks in
unknown hand. 2 page, 7¾x4¾, 1 sheet folded, front and verso, on Gloria
O'Connor's embossed stationery. In full: "Dear Phyllis - Thanks for
the card - It was sweet of you to think of us. Donald enjoyed working with you
so much - We both adore you (no - we're not gay!!) Ha! This our new & I hope
permanent address [address] Will be back in late August. I hope we can
get together then - Love". Postscript: "Will send you itinerary".
Lightly creased.Postscript touches signature. Blue ink marks touch
body of letter but not signature. Folded in half and unfolded. Otherwise in fine
condition. Accompanied by: Autograph envelope unsigned, addressed in
Gloria O'Connor's hand. Blue ink notations in unknown hand. 5¼x4. Postmarked
Van Nuys, California, June 27 and July 1, 1980. Addressed to Phyllis Diller,
Los Angeles, California. One 15-cent color American flag stamp affixed. Lightly
soiled. Tape residue at bottom edge. Neatly cut open at top edge. Normal bank
stamps. Otherwise in fine condition. Donald O'Connor appeared with comedian
PHYLLIS DILLER in the 1975 MGM promotional short When the Lion Roars
Again. They appeared together again in 1988, in the TV special America's
Tribute to Bob Hope. GLORIA O'CONNOR, born Gloria Noble, was the wife
of actor and dancer Donald O'Connor from 1956 to his death in 2003. She was also
an occasional actress, with several uncredited appearances on TV during the
early 1950s. DONALD O'CONNOR (1925-2003) was dancing away as a
child in his family's vaudeville act. Remembered as the army private who
can't convince anyone that a mule can talk in a series of six Francis the
Talking Mule films (1949-1955), he also kept dancing in, among others,
Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949) and, with Bing Crosby, in Anything
Goes (1956). For portraying Cosmo Brown in Singin' in the
Rain (1952), O'Connor won the 1953 Golden Globe for Best
Actor-Musical or Comedy. He won the 1954 Emmy Award for Best Male Star of
a Regular Series for his appearances on The Colgate Comedy
Hour.
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