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Helen Morgan (née Riggins; 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.
Helen Morgan (born Aug. 2, 1900, Danville, Ill., U.S.—died Oct. 8, 1941, Chicago, Ill.) was an American actress and singer whose talent was shown to greatest effect in the 1920s and ’30s as a nightclub performer of songs of heartbreak and hard living.
Helen Morgan. Actress: Show Boat. Before the tragic legacies of songbird icons Édith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Judy Garland took hold, there was the one...the original...lady who sang the blues and started the whole "bawl" rolling.
Mar 19, 2011 · Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.Ann Blyth, Paul Newman an...
Sep 20, 2020 · From the movie: SHOW BOAT 1936 Helen Morgan was arguably the first of the great torch singers and her real life reflected the mood of her songs. She had an up and down career, she was unlucky...
Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who starred in the musical Show Boat on stage and screen. She had a troubled life marked by alcoholism, legal troubles, and a mysterious death.
Until her untimely death at the age of forty-one, Helen Morgan graced many Broadway shows, radio programs and Hollywood films. "Body and Soul"Words and Music by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour,...
