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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: This town's ready. I'm ready to open it for you like an oyster.


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.


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LeRoy Prinz, who choreographed the musical numbers in this film, also choreographed the dances in the 1936 film version of "Show Boat", which featured the real 'Helen Morgan (I)' along with Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, and Paul Robeson.
Warner Brothers released this as a double feature with Johnny Trouble.
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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