Frances Belle O'Connor (September 8, 1914, Granite Falls, Minnesota – January 30, 1982, Long Beach, California) was an American entertainer. Born without arms, and a natural beauty she made her living appearing in circus sideshows billed as the armless wonder or the living Venus de Milo. She would perform normal actions such as eating, drinking, writing and smoking a cigarette, using her feet. She even did knitting and sewing with her feet as a hobby. She worked firstly with AI G Circus and then from the mid-1920's to the mid-1940's with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey travelling circus's.

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Her mother served as her showbiz manager. Frances O'Connor never married and never had children. After having retired from the travelling circuit, she died in relative obscurity in Long Beach, California, at the age of 67 in 1982.