Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes sophomoric, sometimes savage, Morgan's programs are a mixture of monologue and weird recorded music. A favorite of Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Stuart Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them...
...Morgan's specialty is moody satire, his weakness elaborate puns. Among his best broadcasts was a take-off on Walter Winchell ("Aside to F.D.R., 'Not yet.' . . . Aside to Winston Churchill, 'Okay if you say so.' ... Aside to J. Edgar Hoover, 'What do you want me to do this week...
Besides belaboring commercials and Mutual, Morgan is now carrying on a feud with Hearst, gently calls many a stray character "William Randolph." As a result, the Hearst New York Journal & American forgets to list his programs...
Sobersided, self-centered, Henry Morgan has many ambitions: to go to England with Norman Corwin, to announce sports, to be a U.S. Senator. But he agrees with his maid, whom he quotes as saying, "It's silly, that stuff you do, but you know-you're the only one who can do it." Mutual executives agree, too. More than one Morgan would be too much...
Tortilla Flat (Frank Morgan, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr; TIME...