Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earned it. For five years, on the Maxwell House program (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.) Frank Morgan, 53, has played a romantic, sciolistic old rogue. But he has been only half of the show. The other half is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice). Time and familiarity have some what dulled Snooks, but Morgan, pinching the girls with the tone of his voice, has grown with his own infectiously timed brand of not-too-naughty humor. Says he, confiding his nautical experiences: "I al ways like to have some port in every sweetheart...
Frothy Fuddle. The frothy fuddle with which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character. He is never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor...
...Frank Morgan was born Francis Philip Wuppermann, one of eleven children of George and Josephine Hancox Wuppermann, of New York City. His Yankee mother, who had relatives on the Mayflower, was president of the Harlem Y.W.C.A. His father was president of Angostura-Wuppermann. sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba...
That Silly Morgan celebrated his marriage by making his stage debut in a vaudeville skit written for him by a friend. His brother, finding that Wuppermann lacked marquee appeal, had taken the name of Morgan. Frank adopted it, too, and in 15 years built it into a Broadway asset (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rosalie, The Band Wagon, etc.). In the early '30s he went to Hollywood for keeps...
...developed his comedy style while playing The Duke in Edwin Justus Mayer's The Firebrand. The idea occurred to him during a long pause in a speakeasy conversation with the playwright. Morgan shattered it with the exclamation: "That silly -" "Who?" asked Mayer...