Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Helen O'Connell
Sign in to saveAmerican actress and singer (1920–1993)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Dedicated lives
- Equality Postponed
- Equality Postponed (Women & Development)
- Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement
- Women and Conflict (Oxfam Focus on Gender Series)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Lima, Ohio, USA
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…
Known for
- The Hollywood Palace — Self - Singer1964
- Miss USA — Self - Presenter1963
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
- Here's Hollywood — Host1960
- Startime — Self1959
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower — Julie1956
- Miss Universe — Host1955
- The George Gobel Show — Self1954
- The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self1950
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-05-23
- Active to
- 1993-09-09
Discography
- Hey, Good Lookin’1951
- I Wanna Play House With You / Slow Poke1951
- We Never Talk Much, We Just Sit Around / How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning1951
- Inspiration / Sailor Boys Have Talk to Me in English1955
- Moon Must Have Followed Me Home / Far Away From Everybody1955
- The Inimitable Helen O'Connell In A Beautiful Friendship1970
- Green Eyes1987
- Here's Helen1998
- Amapola2012
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15,887
- Total plays
- 60,383
Tags
Helen O'Connell (b. May 23, 1920, in Lima, Ohio – September 9, 1993, in San Diego, California) was a singer, actress, and dancer. Helen O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes", "Amapola", and "Tangerine". In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement. Helen won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist. <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Helen
- Family name
- O'Connell
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lima
- Place of death
- San Diego
- Spouse
- Frank De Vol
- Occupation
- vocalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- traditional pop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- Helen O'Connell Billboard.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1920-05-23
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- date of death
- 1993-09-09
- place of burial
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Helen O'Connell
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
- writing language
- English language
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0