Biography: Helen O'Connell

Birth Name: Helen O'Connell

Birth Date: May 23, 1920

Birth Place: Peru

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 Dors...