The Helen Morgan Story (1957) | |
| Director(s) | Michael Curtiz |
| Producer(s) | Martin Rackin |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Drama, Musical |
| Top Topics | Alcohol, Show Business, True Story (based on) |
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The Helen Morgan Story (1957) was a Biographical - Drama Film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Martin Rackin.
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Larry Maddux:
Do yourself a favor. Hire the kid.
Whitey Krause: I hope your hooch is better than your suggestion, Larry. What's the canary to you.
Larry Maddux: Nuthin'. I'm just a music lover. Besides, I don't go for that sad stuff she sings.
Johnny Haggerty: It's tough to be a good guy and a cop at the same time.
Larry Maddux: This town's ready. I'm ready to open it for you like an oyster.
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Whitey Krause: I hope your hooch is better than your suggestion, Larry. What's the canary to you.
Larry Maddux: Nuthin'. I'm just a music lover. Besides, I don't go for that sad stuff she sings.
Johnny Haggerty: It's tough to be a good guy and a cop at the same time.
Larry Maddux: This town's ready. I'm ready to open it for you like an oyster.
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Facts about
This was Warner Bros. only feature in black-and-white CinemaScope.
Leonid Kinskey's final movie.
Although Ann Blyth had done her own singing in her other movie musicals, her trained soprano voice was judged too operatic for the role of Helen Morgan, and pop singer Gogi Grant's voice was dubbed in. Ironically, the real Helen Morgan's light soprano voice was actually closer to Blyth's in quality than it was to Grant's. Ann Blyth revealed to writer-producer John Fricke that studio head Jack L. Warner had insisted on an intense, belting, Judy Garland-type sound for the film's Morgan.
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Leonid Kinskey's final movie.
Although Ann Blyth had done her own singing in her other movie musicals, her trained soprano voice was judged too operatic for the role of Helen Morgan, and pop singer Gogi Grant's voice was dubbed in. Ironically, the real Helen Morgan's light soprano voice was actually closer to Blyth's in quality than it was to Grant's. Ann Blyth revealed to writer-producer John Fricke that studio head Jack L. Warner had insisted on an intense, belting, Judy Garland-type sound for the film's Morgan.
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