Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward VII of Britain. When the financier died, Burleigh fulfilled his last request by singing Calvary at his funeral...
...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...
...Morgan's Creek is the home town of Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a daftly endearing innocent who gradually remembers one morning that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...
Happy Land (Don Ameche, Henry Morgan, Harry Carey; TIME...
Happy Land (Don Ameche, Henry Morgan, Harry Carey; TIME...