Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Button, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
...victor was tall, twangy, easygoing James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, 43, a fancy-dressing hillbilly tenor, and composer of such eminent sockeroos as You Are My Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given...
Betty Hutton, loose-jointed, incendiary blonde (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), was told that she had cracked three ribs after being tossed by a team of acrobats during the filming of Incendiary Blonde...