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Thora Greener is a famous actress singer, dancer, and model. She was popular throughout the 1950's and still is making public appearances now. She was famous for her many roles with Donald O'Connor.

Early Life
Thora was the daughter of Martin and Florence Greener. Martin was the pastor of a Lutheran church and they adopted Thora from Sweden when she was still an infant. She hardly resembled the common Swede, such as her dark brown hair and her dark green eyes. Thora was an student of Whitfeild Academy and her father was determined to have her grades be the first priority of his daughter. After grades was her piano practice. She took at the Academy of Performing Arts in the nearby town of Grandview, Missouri since the age of 2. She also took drama there since the age of 5. The class was taught by Dan Roberts. He had directed several films int he silent era, one of which were famous. So he returned to his home and decided to teach children of the wonderful world of performing arts. Thora excelled in piano, being able to play many of Beethoven's and Motzart's pieces by age 10. But in drama, she was a "star student". She could act out anything almost instantly. For example, she could go from being the mentally challenged and angry Lady Macbeth to being the sweet and shy simple girl, Dorothy Gale. She was a master of the arts, and it would soon be realized by Dan Roberts.

Discovery
Dan was going bankrupt. The academy had much less students and his drama class consisted of only five children. He had to make money. Then, an idea came to him. Maybe, just maybe, he could go back to Hollywood and make a film. His wife, Christine, thought that it was incredibly foolish, considering he hardly had any money to make it. His daughter Julie and his son, Michael, sided with their mother. But his youngest son, Herbert, had tremendous faith in his father. He motivated him to write a script. But Dan was run out of ideas. Then, the thought hit him. That very week, a film, called Singin' in the Rain, had been released It was a smash hit. Dan had seen it and like it very much. He thought, "Maybe I could write a sequel to it. All I need to do is add a couple of songs, a good story, then you got it." He got to work. He wrote a story about the two lovers, Don and Kathy, after they had married and had kids. he was determined and he wrote it in a week. He gave it to Herbert. "It's alright," he said. "But I think it shoudl be about Don's friend, Cosmo Brown's lovelife during the whole Don and Kathy thing." Dan loved it, but was fresh out of ideas. Herbert took on the project and got to work. When Dan read it a month later, he thought it had great potential. he just edited a few things and added in songs, such as When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, which is what they chose the title to be. once they weredone, they had a three hour film. They thougth it was long, but didn't dare cut out any of it. If they did, the whole story would be ruined. So they printed it nicely along with sheet music and were ready to submit it to MGM, the company Dan had previouly worked for. Mr. Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, read it and called him up. He liked it adn said it was very well written. But his concern was that it being a sequel, the public wouldn't accept it. Sequels generally didn't turn out that well. But e decided to do it anyways. Other than the length of the film, it wouldn't be hard at all budget wise. Almost every single actor was previously in Singin' in the Rain, so the casting was generally easy. But Cosmo's love interest, Marilyn, would be tricky. He needed a gil with long, curly, dark brown hair, emrald green eyes, and very light skin. Then it hit him Thora, his 18-year-old student. She would be fabulous for the role. After talking with her parents about it and making plans, Thora and Dan set of to Hollywood to start the filming.

Filming
After a few days in Hollywood, the cast would meet for the first time and run lines. "My breath was taken away," said Thora. "There I was in Hollywood, around all of those famous people. I met Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe. It was incredible!" When she first saw her on-sceen love intrest, Donald O'Conor, her mind was blown. She had adored him many pictures and to work with him was beyond words. Donald was going to teach her how to dance. Throa had no dancing experience at all except the basic waltz.It was hard, but the work paid off. The film was a hit and onet poured in. Thora dn Donald were now famous lovers of the screen. It was time for THora to move on. THey had wanted Thora for the screen adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to play Juliet Capulet. But instead of Donald, they chose his co-star in Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly, to be Romeo. Thora had othing against im, but he was a difficult person and hard to work with. She said that he had an "ego big enough for all of Hollywood." After that film, which was fairly popular, she was to amke another film with Donald, Where Sea Billows Roll. It was successful. Then they finally made another musical, Laugh!. It was almost as famous as When Irish Eyes are Smiling. They made several more films together, almost all musicals.

Idolism
After the making of Romeo and Juliet, Thora was having lunch with Donald. He ahd recently been in the movie There's No Buesiness Like Show Buesiness with Marilyn Monroe. She commented that any man in America would like to be him, since he and Marilyn had kissed several times. Then he said that men envied him for kissing Thora. She laughed it off, then he said, "Honestly, though. Men swoon over you." She didn't believe it. So he took her to a general store and bought the latest copy of Playboy magazine. There were pictures and articles throughout the entire magazine about her.She had become a sex symbol overnight. She was sent many love letters from her adoring fans and even one, known as Lover Mike, stalked her and threw bouquets at her, ect. However, this idolism was not forseen by all. Many saw her as just a flirt try to get ahead by using Donald. They sought to ruin her reputation with rumors and lies. She was in constant danger. Even Lover Mike was hazardous to her. He tossed things at her and jumped at her. She had to have constant body guards to guard her physically and emotionally. Many rumors came up in magazines. But no one could doubt, she was beautiful.

Romance
Thora and Donald had always maintained a strong friedship for the past few years. But dating had never come up. Until one day, when Lover Mike was attempting to assault her, DOnald took him and beat him to where was unconsious. Thora was smitten with his chivalry.