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Helen Morgan (other)
Helen Morgan may refer to: *Helen Morgan (singer) (1900–1941), American singer and actress. *Helen Morgan (field hockey) (1966–2020), Welsh field hockey player *Helen Elizabeth Morgan (born 1952), Welsh actress, model, TV host and beauty queen * ''Helen Morgan'' (''Playhouse 90''), an American television play *Helen Clarissa Morgan (1845–1914), American educator *Helen Morgan (politician) (born 1975), British politician *Helen Morgan, the married name of diver Helen Crlenkovich *Helen Moore (also known as Helen Morgan; died 1996), common-law wife and killer of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan See also *Helen Morgenthau Fox Helen Morgenthau Fox ( Morgenthau; May 27, 1884 – January 13, 1974) was an American botanist and author of popular gardening books.Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn (2000). ''American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, Volume 2.'' St. James Pres ...
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Helen Morgan (singer)
Helen Morgan (née Riggin; August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical ''Show Boat'' in 1927, as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 (prologue only) and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role. She suffered from bouts of alcoholism, and despite her notable success in the title role of another Hammerstein and Kern's Broadway musical, '' Sweet Adeline'' (1929), her stage career was relatively short. Helen Morgan died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 41. She was portrayed by Polly Bergen in the ''Playhouse 90'' drama ''The Helen Morgan Story'' and by Ann Blyth in the 1957 biopic based on the televi ...
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Helen Morgan (field Hockey)
Helen Jane Morgan (née Grandon; 20 July 1966 – 19 November 2020) was a field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c .... She was educated at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, and joined Swansea hockey club at the age of thirteen. Later in her career, she played for and captained the Wales international football team. References External links * * Welsh female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain British female field hockey players Female field hockey goalkeepers Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain 1966 births 2020 deaths Sportspeople from Porthca ...
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Helen Elizabeth Morgan
Helen Elizabeth Morgan (born 29 September 1952) is a British people, British actress, model, tv Host and beauty queen who won the 1974 Miss Wales, Miss United Kingdom and Miss World Beauty contest, pageants. Morgan became the first winner to resign, and the second (after Marjorie Wallace) not to finish her reign as Miss World. Biography Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England she worked in a bank. Entering modelling competitions on a part-time basis, she won the Miss Wales (representing Barry, Wales, Barry in the competition for that title) and Miss United Kingdom titles in 1974. Miss Universe 1974 Morgan represented Wales in the Miss Universe 1974 pageant, where she finished first runner-up to Amparo Muñoz of Spain. When Muñoz resigned as Miss Universe before the end of her reign, the crown was not offered to Morgan or any other runner-up. Miss World 1974 Winning Miss United Kingdom earned Morgan the right to represent the United Kingdom in Miss World. She had originally ...
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Helen Morgan (Playhouse 90)
"Helen Morgan" is an American television play broadcast on May 16, 1957, as part of the CBS television series, ''Playhouse 90''. It was the 33rd episode of the first season of ''Playhouse 90''. Polly Bergen won the Emmy Award for her performance. The production also received Emmy nominations for Program of the Year and best directing by George Roy Hill. Sylvia Sidney and Hoagy Carmichael co-starred. Plot The teleplay follows the life of singer Helen Morgan from age 17 and through her work as a Chicago torch singer, on Broadway in ''George White's Scandals'', and in ''Show Boat'' where she gained fame singing " Bill" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". The production also covers Morgan's alcohol abuse, her three marriages, and her death at age 41 from cirrhosis of the liver. Cast The following performers received screen credit for their performances:Kinescope of "The Helen Morgan Story", aired May 16, 1957. * Polly Bergen as Helen Morgan * Hoagy Carmichael as Marty Dix * Sylvi ...
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Helen Clarissa Morgan
Helen Clarissa Morgan (February 25, 1845 – May 23, 1914) was an American educator from the U.S. state of New York. She was the first woman to be appointed professor of Latin in a US coeducational college. Early years and education Helen Clarissa Morgan was born in Masonville, New York in 1845. The family moved to Oberlin, Ohio when Morgan was 12 years old. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1866, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts, and in 1911 that college conferred upon her the honorary degree of master of arts. Career Upon graduation she taught for three years in Michigan, and in 1869 was called to Nashville, Tennessee to teach Classical Studies in Fisk University, which was then located in the Federal Hospital Buildings. W. E. B. Du Bois was a student in her Latin classes. Although she received a call to teach at Vassar College, she chose to devote her life to work among African Americans African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also c ...
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Helen Morgan (politician)
Helen Margaret Lilian Morgan (; born 9 April 1975) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and chartered accountant who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire since 2021. Early life and career Morgan was born Helen Margaret Lilian Halcrow on 9 April 1975 in Nottingham to John and Susan Halcrow. She grew up in Stone, Staffordshire. She attended Alleyne's High School in Stone before reading history at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1996. Morgan is a chartered accountant, and prior to her election to Parliament worked as financial controller for a real estate business based in North Shropshire. Her previous experience included posts as head of margin forecasting at British Gas, head of financial reporting at Centrica, and audit manager at KPMG. Morgan began her career in politics as a parish councillor. At the 2019 general election, she stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in North Shropshire, coming third with 10 per cent of the vote behi ...
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Helen Crlenkovich
Helen Crlenkovich ( Croatian: ''Crljenković'') (Akron, Ohio, January 14, 1921 - Los Angeles, California, July 19, 1955) was one of the most successful athletes in America and the world on the three-meter springboard and the ten-meter platform. She was a Croatian American known to friends and family as "Klinky." Both of her parents were from Croatia: mother Anka Tomin was from Petrijevci, and father Adam from Banićevac near Cernik. Career Crlenkovich's mother moved to San Francisco in the early 1930s to help Helen realize her dreams to become a swimmer, leaving Helen's sister Kay behind in a New York boarding school. Crlenkovich began participating on the "Fairmont Plunge" swim team at the Fairmont Hotel under the tutelage of Phil Patterson, alongside future swimming and diving stars Ann Curtis, Barbara Jensen, and Patsy Elsener. Her best sports years began in the late 1930s. In 1937, she was the national junior diving champion. She not only became the best American, but als ...
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Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note Records, Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's The Jazz Messengers, Jazz Messengers. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. Morgan's solo recordings often alternated between conventional hard bop sessions and more adventurous post-bop and Avant-garde jazz, avant-garde experiments, many of which did not see release during his lifetime. His composition "The Sidewinder (song), The Sidewinder", on the The Sidewinder, album of the same name, became a surprise crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts in 1964. After a second stint in Blakey's band, Morgan continued to work prolifically as both a leade ...
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