Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Donald O'Connor's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts
The Romantic Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor. The birth-card coordinate for August 28 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1954 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Colgate Comedy Hour) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1954 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — The Colgate Comedy Hour as Himself (pre genre split)
The Jack of Hearts coordinate
Donald O'Connor's birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Donald O'Connor. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.
Donald O'Connor in the public record
He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. O'Connor was born into a vaudeville family, where he learned to dance, sing, play comedy, and perform slapstick. The most distinctive characteristic of his dancing style was its athleticism, for which he had few rivals. Yet it was his boyish charm that audiences found most engaging, and which remained an appealing aspect of his personality throughout his career. In his Universal musicals of the early 1940s, O'Connor was a wisecracking, fast-talking teenager, much like Mickey Rooney of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). But by 1952 and Singin' in the Rain, MGM had cultivated a much more sympathetic sidekick persona for him, and that remained O'Connor's signature image. His best-known work was his "Make 'Em Laugh" dance routine in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which O'Connor was awarded a Golden Globe. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Donald O'Connor (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Hearts
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Cards in Donald O'Connor's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- K♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Bringing fresh perspective and inspiration to connection
O'Connor was born into a vaudeville family, where he learned to dance, sing, play comedy, and perform slapstick.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- No other Emmy winner in this set shares the Jack of Hearts.
FAQ
- What is Donald O'Connor's birth card?
- The Jack of Hearts. August 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Donald O'Connor's dates come from?
- Birth date 1925-08-28 is the day-precision date on Donald O'Connor's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Donald O'Connor; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q348345). Birth date 1925-08-28 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).