Helen Morgan's career in the 1920s and 1930s is traced from her early days performing outside at a fair, through her years as a chorus girl and in speakeasies, to her Broadway prominence in Ziegfeld's...Read more "Show Boat." Performances of several of the songs she made famous mark her engagement with Larry Maddux, a gin-runner and con artist, and Russell Wade, a well-known, married New York lawyer, as well as her downfall due to these failed relationships and alcohol.
Helen Morgan's career in the 1920s and 1930s is traced from her early days performing outside at a fair, through her years as a chorus girl and in speakeasies, to her Broadway...Read more prominence in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat." Performances of several of the songs she made famous mark her engagement with Larry Maddux, a gin-runner and con artist, and Russell Wade, a well-known, married New York lawyer, as well as her downfall due to these failed relationships and alcohol.
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