Helen O'Connell
Acting
May 23, 1920
Died September 9, 1993 (73 years old)
Lima, Ohio, USA
13
Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Singer
5
Miss USA
1963
as Self - Presenter
6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
7.5
Here's Hollywood
1960
as Host
4.8
Startime
1959
as Self
6.8
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
7.5
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
as Julie
Miss Universe
1955
as Host
6
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
7.8
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
6.9
Man That's Groovy
1943
I Dood It
1943
as Herself
5.1
The Fleet's In
1942
as Dorsey Band Vocalist
7.3