How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down

“I Love A Mystery”: Donald O’Connor of the Day #1.

Bits of the “Make ‘Em Laugh” routine—the face, the couch, the fight—but this is 1947, five years before Singin’ in the Rain and dare I, but say it, he’s that much more nimble.

I love how strangely graceful he looks, trampling all over the furniture, each pratfall looking easier and more lovely(!) than the one before. I want to say it’s all in his posture, how straight he holds his back. Makes everything else look wiggly. Love him.

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   Only six cuts once...dancing gets started. His limbs look like

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