Wednesday, July 14, 2010

FORGOTTEN ONES: HELEN MORGAN

Helen Morgan is largely forgotten now, but to many she was one of the best torch singers of all time. She was born in 1900 and, 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. 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 in 1941...

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