"I just dance."

Donald O'Connor is underappreciated. Nowadays when you mention Donald O'Connor you have to add on: "You know, the guy who flips off the wall in Singing in the Rain?" before anyone knows who you are talking about. While "Make em Laugh" is a brilliant dance from a brilliant movie, I figured I would start us on the O'Connor train with a less well-known film.  Donald O'Connor was a pretty big star in his time. He was the leading man in quite a few hit movie-musicals (including one opposite Marilyn Monroe) plus the Francis the Talking Mule movies.  For those of you unfamiliar, they were a series of movies about a guy and his... talking mule. Pretty self-explanatory. They were a really big thing at the time, so much so that when Donald O'Connor finally quit, they dragged in Mickey Rooney to do the last film! Trivia : Mr. Ed was based heavily on Francis the Talking Mule Really Obscure Trivia : Leonard Nimoy (Known best as Mr. Sp