Talk:Helen Morgan (singer)

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Stub?[edit]

You must be joking.

Surely this is more than "a very short article or a rough collection of information"?

Well, it isn't a very short article, but it is a very rough collection of information. I have rerated for now, but it will be a long time before it goes higher. The entire article needs to be sourced for each statement (see Springfield, Illinois).--Kranar drogin 13:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I see what you mean. Lyn50 07:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Blatant and voluminous amount of POV, OR, CRUFT and other general unsourced/uncited text which should be removed via BOLD until/unless properly attributed and appropriately reworded as needed[edit]

Helen Morgan's high, thin, and somewhat wobbly voice was not fashionable during the 1920s for the kind of songs that she specialized in...

During this period, several Chicago gangsters tried to help fund her various attempts to open her own nightclub. During the run of Show Boat, however, Morgan's stardom led to difficulties. Her prominence in the world of New York nightclubs (actually illegal speakeasies in the era of Prohibition) led to her fronting a club called Chez Morgan, at which she entertained. On December 30, 1927, only days after the opening of Show Boat, she was arrested at Chez Morgan for violation of liquor laws. Charges were dropped in February 1928, and the club reopened as Helen Morgan's Summer Home, but she was arrested again on June 29 and this time indicted. A jury acquitted her at a trial held in April 1929; in the meantime, however, she had temporarily given up performing in nightclubs, not returning to such work until after the repeal of Prohibition. -- NOTE: this should stay if not copyedit violation, provided it can be reliably sourced

in the meantime, however, she had temporarily given up performing in nightclubs, not returning to such work until after the repeal of Prohibition.

Oddly enough, when Sweet Adeline was filmed in 1934, Morgan's role went to her future Show Boat co-star, Irene Dunne, who possessed a lovely soprano, but was certainly not a torch singer.

However, the feature film was not as well received, partly because critics felt that Blyth's real singing voice sounded more like Morgan's than the voice the studio supplied for her - that of Gogi Grant.

Quis separabit? 13:19, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]