Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all the women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...
...Boris Rose of New York is doing some interesting experimentation on the reduction of surface noise on reissues. He has worked on some of the ancient gems like the Sam Morgan set which featured many of Bunk's present side men when they still possessed all of their faculties, and could easily be persuaded to part with some of these...
Hollywood has often used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
...Henry Morgan Show (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Program: unpredictable (see above...
...Morgan still thinks of himself as unemployed. "Radio is my hobby. I don't have a vocation." Only his worst humor is broadcast, he says. "There aren't more than 3,500 people who can understand the good stuff. Most people don't understand anything. There are too few people as intelligent as I am." He adds: "I'm intelligent, but misguided. If I had any real talent, I'd go straight...