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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.
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. Like her successors, Helen Morgan lived the sad songs she sang...and more.
- August 2, 1900
- October 9, 1941
Helen Margaret Lillian Morgan (born 9 April 1975) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and chartered accountant who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire since 2021.
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.
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Apr 5, 2010 · Why Was I Born? from "Sweet Adeline" Words by Oscar Hammerstein II, Music by Jerome Kern ...more.
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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.
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,...
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