Helen O'Connell

Actor · born 23 May 1920 · 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.

Where to start: Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956).