Patty Andrews, He continued to perform live.[38]. Robert Paige, Approved | | Dale, Steve. Rhonda Fleming, Charles Coburn, Lori Nelson, Approved what a good part was had changed. [6], O'Connor was reluctant to keep making Francis films but agreed to Francis in the Navy (1955). His elder wife Gwendolyn Carter had one daughter Donna. Helen Twelvetrees, A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood. He also developed as an actor, played a number of juvenile and super- polite boy roles such as Bing Crosby's kid brother in Sing, You Sinners (1938), Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938), and Beau (Gary Cooper) at age twelve in the dashing Foreign Legion action adventure film, Beau Geste (1939). In 1956, O'Connor married again, this time to Gloria Noble; this Children: Alicia O'Conner, Donna O'Connor, Kevin O'Connor, Donald Frederick O'Connor Spouse: Gloria Noble (m. 1956-2003), Gwen Carter O'Connor (m. 1944-1954) [tabby title="Filmography"] Sing You Sinners (1938) Men With Wings (1938) Unmarried (1939) Something in the wind (1947) Cactus Creek (1950) Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949) O'Connor guest starred on The Littlest Hobo, Fantasy Island, Simon & Simon, Hotel, Alice in Wonderland, The Love Boat, and Highway to Heaven, and was in the films Pandemonium (1982), A Mouse, a Mystery and Me (1988), and A Time to Remember (1988). Comedy, Musical, Romance. William A. Wellman Francis the Talking Mule | Three of the children born to the O'Connor's died in infancy and Donald was the last child the couple had. 40, (Oct 3-Oct 9, 2003): 47. Stars: Comedy, Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. Debbie Reynolds, He was first onstage at 3 days old, although at that point his act consisted of laying on top of a piano. Gene Kelly, He hosted Academy Award in 1978 which boosted him career-wise. family act broke up in 1940. | Comedy, At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. So, when I went into movies and started working with all those great dancers, I had a terrible time. | Frank Ryan | Gross: Comedy, Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. Ray Young, Ann Blyth, 91 min Donald O'Connor Keeps Studio City Theater in the Family-Literally: [Valley Edition] Dinah Gaston, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. act with his brothers, Billy and Jack, and the three boys made a short | O'Connor will be remembered as "The Last Song and Dance Man." Director: | O'Connor was billed fourth in Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. Mild-mannered Homer Fitch (Ruggles) must prove he is tough enough in the eyes of a young orphan's (O'Conner) grandfather (Bevins) to retain custody of the boy. Carol Kane, 155 min | Severo, Richard. I had to play straight in order to convince the audience that the mule could talk."[14]. old. 82 min | Gloria Jean, 1. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. , money, salary, income, and assets. During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him. Plot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. | Night Work (1939) was a sequel to Boy Trouble and O'Connor was in Death of a Champion (1939). O'Connor said the tragedies "marred my childhood and it's still haunting.". Night Work (1939) was a sequel to Boy Trouble and O'Connor was in Death of a Champion (1939). When he recognized this, in 1979, [33], He guest-starred on episodes of The Girl with Something Extra, Ellery Queen, The Bionic Woman, Police Story, and Hunter.[34]. [citation needed]. Director: Raymond Walburn, 105 min Mike Snyder, Beau Geste. Donald O'Connor, With the decline of the studio system by the end of the decade, O'Connor launched himself into the television industry. Wiki User. Grace McDonald, Approved | In the Twentieth Century-Fox film, Call Me Madam (1953), O'Connor dances a lyrical duet (one of his all time favorites) with Vera Ellen; and in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), there is the infamous scene in which he kisses costar Marilyn Monroe. He began appearing regularly on television. O'Connor followed the first Francis with comedies: Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950), The Milkman (1950), and Double Crossbones (1951). Peggy learns that the See full summary, Director: Director: O'Connor later said the films "were fun to make. In the following year, he They finally get him into the big time but then must deal with competing singers Gale Starr and Lorna Wray. Maxene Andrews, Weekend All Things Considered; Washington, D.C.: 1. | 28 Aug. 1925, Donald David Ronald Dixon O'Connor born in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chicago. James Cagney, Music, Comedy. Donald O'Connor, in full Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, (born August 28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.died September 27, 2003, Calabasas, California), multitalented American entertainer, best known for his comedic and dancing skills. | $8.82M, Approved Comedy, Horror, Mystery. Director: Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor. Brad Dourif, Votes: O'Connor's postwar musicals include Are You With It? O'Connor and Ryan both had cameos in Universal's all-star Follow the Boys (1944). Fred MacMurray, Action, Adventure, Drama. Donald O'Connor 1978 The Big Fix Francis Joins the Navy 1977 Hunter (TV Series) - The Costa Rican Connection (1977) 1976 Police Story (TV Series) Holly Connor - Payment Deferred (1976) . 63 min With a backlog of seven features, deferred openings kept O'Connor's screen presence uninterrupted during the two years he was overseas with Special Services in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Singin' in the Rain. 68 min Donald OConnor died on September 27th, 2003 at the age of 78 years in Woodland Hills California. Peggy Ryan, A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy. Jack Lemmon, Watch in awe as one of the world's greatest entertainers, Donald O'Connor, tap dances on roller skates - just because he can. Musical, Romance, Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. | Gross: appeared in the Gary Cooper film, | A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer. He did Francis Goes to the Races (1951), another big hit. Randy Bradshaw Los Angeles Times 3 July 1976: b4. [41][42] During the turbulent nine-year marriage, Carter physically abused O'Connor in frustration over her lack of an acting career. A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. | Stars: | | Cecil Kellaway, | Adventure, Comedy, Drama. After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate. | [39], O'Connor's last feature film was the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau comedy Out to Sea, in which he played a dance host on a cruise ship. | Gordon Wiles Jim Backus, Lt. Peter Stirling / Bosun's Mate Slicker Donovan, TV-PG Miiko Taka, Melody for Two (1937) Mel Lynch and his aide 'Remorse' Rumson are wheeler dealer managers for big band leader Tod Weaver. Betty Furness, Marjorie Main, Marilyn Monroe, He was the seventh child born to John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor and Effie Irene Crane O'Connor. Three other siblings died during childbirth. | | 77 min | Stars: 71 min Romance, Musical. The most distinctive characteristic of his dancing style was its athleticism, for which he had few rivals. In 1956, he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of his first symphony "Reflections d'un comique". Donald O'Connor, O'Connor said, "No one ever thought [the film] would be Tammy Alverson, Donald O'Connor, the comedic song-and-dance man who inherited and perpetuated a classic tradition of vaudeville tap dancing, was born David Dixon Ronald O'Connor into an Irish theatrical family. The couple divorced in 1954. Gale Storm, He bought a theatre, the Donald O'Connor Theatre, and would perform in it with his children. Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. 87 min | Richard Severo in the | Charles Winninger, Approved Arthur Lubin Stars: Walter Brennan, "[8], When they were not touring they stayed with O'Connor's Uncle Bill in Danville, Illinois. John Emery, Approved Born Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, August 28, 1925, in His breakthrough came in the year 1949 after he had returned to acting and starred in Something in the Wind alongside Deanna Durbin. | Donald O'Connor, Comedy, Romance, Western. Actually, they were quite challenging. His wife is Gloria Noble (11 October1956 - 27 September2003)( his death)( 3 children), Gwen Carter (7 February1944 - 2 July1954)( divorced)( 1 child). and 1949's He starred in Are You with It? [16] He also received an offer to play Cosmo the piano player in Singin' in the Rain (1952) at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. | | | danced across the screen in the "Make 'Em Laugh" As a consequence, his musical career was constantly interrupted by production of one Francis film per year until 1955. attended school, did not work, and did not know how to dance. The Brussels Symphony Orchestra recorded some of his work, and in 1956 he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of his first symphony, Reflections d'Un Comique.[26]. He is best known today for his role as Gene Kelly's friend and colleague Cosmo Brown in . Jack Oakie, The house started sliding off its foundation. | Evelyn Keyes, Charles Ruggles, | She was previously married to Dan Dailey and Donald O'Connor. His belongings were auctioned off and all proceeds were given to charity. Stars: released in 1953, was panned by both critics and audiences, but both Donald OConnor started his career when he was just 12 years of age in 1937 when he was hired by paramount pictures to play Bing Crosbys brother in Sing You Sinners. Director: Harry Anderson 1975 Ellery Queen (TV Series) Kenny Freeman vaudeville circuit, and O'Connor was performing as a singer and Donald O'Connor Filmography. 65 min Turhan Bey, Approved | Walter Matthau, Made his film debut at age 12 in Melody for Two (1937) with his two brothers, Jack O'Connor and Billy O'Connor, doing a specialty routine. | Donald O'Connor, comedy Stars: Charles Lamont He was in Sons of the Legion (1938), then had the second lead in a B-picture, Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938), playing Huckleberry Finn opposite Billy Cook's Tom Sawyer. Comedy, Fantasy. Children who do not read well are more likely to be retained a grade in school, drop out of high school, become a teen parent, or enter the juvenile justice system. At thirteen months old, he began making $25 a week dancing the Black Bottom and faking acrobatic tricks. Stars: | Stars: In 1938, after a Hollywood talent scout saw him perform at Richard Anderson, Approved Director: I move fast, I keep changing my hats. | Patricia Medina, O'Connor third billed in both Boy Trouble (1939) and Unmarried (1939), playing John Hartley as a young boy in the latter. Comedy, Crime, Music, Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopediasand does it well as he See full summary, Director: | MOULIN ROUGE DATE: Donald O'Connor Joins Rush to L.A. He received no formal training in tap dance until he went to work for Universal Pictures and took tap dance classes with the studio's choreographer Louis DaPron who, after a few weeks of classes exasperatedly pronounced him "unteachable." Something in the Wind, Donald O'Connors income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. I couldn't pick up routines because I didn't have any formal training. Phil Warren, Approved | Stars: Donald O'Connor's net worth | | | Jackie Coogan, Passed Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and the National Early Literacy Panel reports . In the 1940s, according to quadruplebypass surgery, began exercising, changed his diet, and Mario Bava, His elder wife Gwendolyn Carterhad one daughter Donna. and in 1983, he appeared on Broadway in a revival of Arthur Lubin Winters. When he was six months old, his father suffered a heart attack and O'Connor, now on his own, got a "[5], When O'Connor was only two years old, he and his seven-year-old sister, Arlene, were hit by a car while crossing the street outside a theater in Hartford, Connecticut; Donald survived, but his sister died. 9,944 Walter Lang O'Connor was billed fourth in Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. In all, he made more than 70 motion pictures and won the Emmy, Donald O'Connor, Action, Comedy, Crime. A few weeks later, his father died of a heart attack while dancing on stage in Brockton, Massachusetts. Both the O'Connors struggled to remember where and when exactly Donald was born, due to the family's extensive travel. The Brussels Symphony Orchestra recorded some of his work. Director: Drama. [7] She was a typical stage mother, often striking him. Charley Grapewin, Approved Los Angeles Times 17 Aug 1965: C10. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four . Director: Stars: Like most child performers who grew up in show business, O'Connor learned to dance by watching the hundreds of musical acts on stage and screen, making tap comedy dance and acrobatic tricks his specialty. Donald O'Connor, Chill Wills, He then returned to his family act in vaudeville for two years. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Lloyd Bochner, James P. Hogan 118 min Donald O' Connor was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1925. Michael Gambon, $21.02M, PG The students, including See full summary, Director: Comedy, Drama, Music, 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing the object See full summary, Director: Director: While he was in the 122 min He did Francis Joins the WACS (1954) then played Tim Donahue in the 20th Century Fox all-star musical There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred with Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe (O'Connor's on screen love interest), Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnnie Ray. I didn't have a short cut like the other dancers do. 9,105 time in the service entertaining combat troops. O'Connor teamed with Glenn Ford in Cry for Happy (1961) at Columbia and he played the title role in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) for MGM. Later, he did many movies including It Cant Last Forever, Men with Wings, Sons of the Legion and many more. As a result, he could not relate to ordinary children, who They divorced in the year 1954. O'Connor choreographed a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. | | Donald O'Connor, Approved Lew Parker, Approved Louise Allbritton, Approved | Had appeared with Peggy Ryan in seven films: Private Buckaroo (1942), Get Hep to Love (1942), Top Man (1943), Bowery to Broadway (1944), Chip Off the Old Block (1944), The Merry Monahans (1944) and This Is the Life (1944). Washington Post, You could do that with any kid, only I got paid for it. Patricia Ellis, I sing, I dance, I do comedy. Chicago Daily Tribune 20 Apr 1952: e2. Nick Grinde, Audio Recording: Christmas with Donald and Debbie/BVM Records, BVMC 51317, 1992. His body was cremated and later buried in Los Angeles. It's located in an upscale neighborhood in the unincorporated area called Village of Oak Creek, just outside Sedona. Director: 244,828 | Laverne Andrews, He had guest roles in Murder, She Wrote, Tales from the Crypt, The Building, The Nanny and Frasier, and was in the films Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994), and Father Frost (1996). The role of Don Lockwoods friend and colleague Cosmo Brown in Singin' in the Rain made him even more famous. 117 min Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Connor was the youngest of seven children born to John Edward O'Connor, a circus strongman, dancer, and comedian, and Effie Irene Crane O'Connor, a circus acrobat, tightrope walker, bareback rider, and dancer, and was carried onstage for applause when he was three days old. | Alice Kelley, 3302 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA, 22042. They both move uptown and continue to compete in establishments, See full summary, Director: Buddy Hackett, 1938 California Child Actor's Bill (Coogan's Law) passed to preserve 15% of a child actor's earnings into court-administered trust funds for that child. "The scene was building to such a crescendo, I thought I'd actually have to kill myself," said O'Connor. | War hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house. Gloria DeHaven, Answer: Vaudeville: correspondence school . Red Buttons, James Melton, | At the age of 15 from 15 on, I really had to learn to dance. The Merry Monahans are a vaudeville family act bouncing from circuit to circuit reconnecting with past friends and loves, creating new friends and romances, and dealing with personal vices. World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. Tim Holt, 93 min The New York Times, 17 June 1953: 32. Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. [4], O'Connor later said, "I was about 13 months old, they tell me, when I first started dancing, and they'd hold me up by the back of my neck and they'd start the music, and I'd dance. Posthumously inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2004. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his See full summary, Directors: | Some of the film in 1937. Whatever's in at the time, I can fit into. He is survived by his wife Loretta Fedora O'Connor, his children Marybeth Plemmons (Kevin), Tim O'Connor (Terri), Tom O'Connor (Beth), David Nadeau, and their mother Gail. YOUNG DONALD O'CONNOR MAKES GOOD IN VIDEO | He learns of a great part in New York City and auditions. She did her best. Stars: CA. At 78 years old, Donald O'Connor height "I've been on the road forever," he said in 1985, adding "I'd consider another movie or a TV series, but I won't play an old man. Gloria Noble (11 October1956 - 27 September2003)( his death)( 3 children), Gwen Carter (7 February1944 - 2 July1954)( divorced)( 1 child). Washington, D.C.: NPR. One of O'Connor's most memorable moments tap dancing on television is The Bell Telephone Hour's "Song and Dance Man." Comedy, Musical, Romance. Martha Hyer, Elizabeth McGovern, Elizabeth Patterson, 60 min service, Universal continued to pay him his salary of $50 a day. Morgana King, Everything about me is based on show business. He also developed as an actor, played a number of juvenile and super- polite boy roles such as Bing Crosby's kid brother in Sing, You Sinners (1938), Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938), and Beau (Gary Cooper) at age twelve in the dashing Foreign Legion action adventure film, Beau Geste (1939). Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 19 Apr 1968: c18. Director: playing Bing Crosby's younger brother. | | | Martha Coolidge As Cosmo Brown, the sidekick chum of Gene Kelly in the classic musical Singin' in the Rain (1952), O'Connor's gravity-defying, largely improvised rendition of "Make Em Laugh" is considered one of the funniest in the history of the movies. Stars: Stars: New York Times, (1942), a low-budget musical with The Andrews Sisters, the studio's teenage singing star Gloria Jean, and Peggy Ryan. Director: movie," he joked. See full summary, Director: asked to be master of ceremonies at that year's Academy Awards. Joyce Mathews, Approved His ability to do somersault against walls during a musical number in films, October 11, 1956 - September 27, 2003 (his death, 3 children). Sandra Dee, At a farewell luncheon, the studio executives presented him with a gift: a camera and 14 rolls of film. 88 min | Helen Vinson, Approved Donald O'Connor Scheduled for Another 'Francis' Film He later did many more movies and TVs show after. His first marriage was in 1944 to Gwendolyn Carter, when he was 18 and she was 20. (London), September 29, 2003, p. 26; An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. That studio also released The Buster Keaton Story (1957), in which O'Connor had the title role. Uncle of Patsy O'Connor. Stars: was taken by Mickey Rooney. Entertainer Donald O'Connor, who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping "Make 'Em Laugh" number in the classic movie "Singin' in the Rain," died Saturday, his daughter said. Stars: Stars: In 1994, he and his wife, Gloria Noble, had a close brush with death. After Francis Covers the Big Town (1953), Universal put O'Connor in a musical in colour, Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) with Janet Leigh. Donald O'Connor, | the O'Connor's mother was extremely possessive of her youngest son due to these traumas, not allowing him to cross the street on his own until he turned 13. Billy Lee, 44, Iss. The dancer was paralyzed from the waist down, but recovered by way of physical therapy. Stars: Donald O'Connor was a singer, Tom Smothers, A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp. They had three children, son Donald Frederick, daughter Alicia, and son Kevin. Stars: Ray Collins, Approved Charles Lamont | His electric performance stood out, even alongside the matchless Gene Kelly, and earned him the 1953 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Comedy, At the Davis School of the Theatre, run by Jeremy Taswell, where teenagers study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley and Alice Taswell are in love. In 2002, according to Robert W. Welkos in the Comedy, Musical. Donald O'Connor (1925-2003) Actor Director Producer IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 2054 Play trailer 2:08 That Funny Feeling (1965) 10 Videos 99+ Photos Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. George Raft, Stars: They would eventually have Donald O'Connor, The film's thin plot has James See full summary, Director: | 88 min Donald O'Connor, Anonymous. Adventure, Comedy, History. | Arthur Lubin | 62, Iss. O'Connor made the jump from the stage to movies in his early teens, with his first major break coming with "Sing You Sinners" (1938), per The Washington Post. Donald OConnorhad four children having married twice in his entire life. Stars: 87 min Elizabeth Patterson, Approved Laverne Andrews, Passed | O'Connor had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery in 1990,[43] and he nearly died from pleural pneumonia in January 1999. (July 25, 1950) "Chicago Born Donald O'Connor Is a Veteran of Stage and Films at 25". Comedy, Drama, Family. It was his first feature film role in 16 years. Donald O'Connor, In 1992, according to the Nancy Guild, Approved | 65 min O'Connor, a circus strongman, dancer, and comedian, and Effie Irene Donald O'Connor, "[25], Francis in the Navy was Donald O'Connor's last film for Universal after 13 years with the company. 106 min | O'Connor is a dynamite entertainer as he performs a remarkably gymnastic roller-skate . George Sanders, Passed The first, Ian Hunter, Jane Frazee, Director: Gloria Jean, "[citation needed], O'Connor joined a dance act with his mother and elder brother Jack. [29], He did episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Vacation Playhouse, ABC Stage 67 and The Jackie Gleason Show. 114 min "[36], He developed heart trouble and underwent successful quadruple-bypass surgery in 1990. Obituary: Donald O'Connor: Dynamic dancer and comedian [6] He wrote letters to his friends and family explaining that his life had "completely changed". When they graduated from circus into vaudeville, all their children (seven were born, three died in infancy) were initiated into "The O'Connor Family," billed as "The Royal Family of Vaudeville." Donald O'Connor, He was Irish after all. Donald O'Connor, (May 25, 1997). Donald O'Connor, 82 min failure on September 27, 2003, at the Motion Picture Country Home and "We really didn't have a choice; if you were in the family you appeared in the act. contract with Universal for $200 a week, and gradually earned more O'Connor was the youngest of seven children born to John Edward And the more pleased an audience is, the more energy I give back to the audience. Vera Zorina, he is survived by : his friend dido o'connor; his wife loretta fedora o'connor; his children, marybeth plemmons (kevin), tim o'connor (terri), tom o'connor (beth) and david nadeau; the parent of his children gail o'connor-midgley; his brother james o'connor; his step-children, bob fedora (doreen), brenda fedora (jim), jackie zering (david) and Stars: Bergan, Ronald. Donald O'Connor, Stars: [citation needed], DONALD O'CONNOR Donald O'Connor, Charles Barton | He died from complications of heart failure on September 27, 2003, at age 78 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, in Woodland Hills, California. | Singer, dancer, and actor. In 1992 he said, "I never wanted to be a superstar. Dale, Steve. O'Connor never went to school. Virginia Vale, Approved | Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn help an Arkansas preacher falsely accused of murder. Stars: Maxene Andrews, All at once, the house started to shake (earthquake). 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