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Helen Morgan is a Actor American born on 1 august 1900 at Danville (USA)

Helen Morgan

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Birth name Helen Riggins
Nationality USA
Birth 1 august 1900 at Danville (USA)
Death 9 october 1941 (at 41 years) at Chicago (USA)

Helen Morgan (August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical Show Boat in 1927 as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 (prologue only) and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role. She suffered from bouts of alcoholism, and despite her notable success in the title role of another Hammerstein and Kern's Broadway musical, Sweet Adeline (1929), her stage career was relatively short. Helen Morgan died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 41. She was portrayed by Polly Bergen in the Playhouse 90 drama The Helen Morgan Story and by Ann Blyth in the 1957 biopic based on the television drama.

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Filmography of Helen Morgan (13 films)

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American Pop
American Pop (1981)
, 1h36
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ron Thompson, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, Richard Singer, Mews Small, Ben Frommer
Roles Singer in Raided Nightclub (archive footage)
Rating70% 3.5458753.5458753.5458753.5458753.545875
Dans la Russie impériale de la fin des années 1890, le rabbin d'un village est assassiné par un groupe de cosaques : sa femme s'exile aux États-Unis avec son jeune fils, Zalmie. Peu après leur arrivée à New York, Zalmie est recruté par Louie, artiste dans un cabaret burlesque. Zalmie devenant adolescent, il passe davantage de temps avec Louie en coulisses lors des spectacles burlesques. Lorsque la mère de Zalmie meurt dans l'incendie d'un atelier de misère, il commence à travailler à plein temps avec Louie dans un petit théâtre. Et bien qu'il aspire à devenir chanteur, Zalmie entre dans la puberté, et la mue qu'opère sa voix devient un obstacle important. La Première Guerre mondiale éclate alors : Zalmie parcourt le globe, jouant pour les troupes la moitié arrière d'un cheval de pantomime , et est blessé à la gorge.
Show Boat
Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Roles Julie LaVerne
Rating73% 3.694043.694043.694043.694043.69404
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
Frankie and Johnnie
Frankie and Johnnie (1936)
, 1h6
Directed by John H. Auer, Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Chester Morris, Helen Morgan, Lilyan Tashman, Florence Reed, Walter Kingsford, Cora Witherspoon
Roles Frankie
Rating62% 3.131283.131283.131283.131283.13128
The story of a maidenly woman, Frankie, and Johnnie, the man "who done her wrong."
Go Into Your Dance
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
, 1h29
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell, Helen Morgan, Barton MacLane, Patsy Kelly
Roles Luana Wells
Rating61% 3.0501253.0501253.0501253.0501253.050125
Broadway star Al Howard’s (Al Jolson) business is slow, and no producers are taking part in his business. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants, causing shows to close and producers to lose money.
Marie Galante
Marie Galante (1934)
, 1h28
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Leslie Fenton, Helen Morgan, Sig Ruman
Roles MissTapia
Rating56% 2.8042252.8042252.8042252.8042252.804225
Differences from novel
Applause
Applause (1929)
, 1h20
Directed by Otto Brower, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Helen Morgan, Dorothy Cumming, Mack Gray
Roles Kitty Darling
Rating70% 3.539563.539563.539563.539563.53956
The first scene has a marching band playing Theodore Mentz's "A Hot Time in the Old Town".
Glorifying the American Girl
Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
, 1h36
Directed by Millard Webb
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Mary Eaton, Noah Beery Sr., Irving Berlin, Billie Burke, Eddie Cantor, Gloria Shea
Roles Self
Rating58% 2.9022252.9022252.9022252.9022252.902225
The plot involves a young woman (Mary Eaton) who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend (Edward Crandall), who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer (Dan Healy) asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.
Show Boat
Show Boat (1929)
, 2h9
Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Stepin Fetchit, Alma Rubens
Roles Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Rating60% 3.048853.048853.048853.048853.04885
The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal.