Dennis Morgan

Dennis Morgan
in the trailer for the film
The Hard Way (1943)
Born
Earl Stanley Morner

(1908-12-20)December 20, 1908
DiedSeptember 7, 1994(1994-09-07) (aged 85)
Alma materCarroll College
Years active1929–1980
Spouse
Lillian Vedder
(m. 1933)
Children3

Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner; December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.

According to one obituary, he was "a twinkly-eyed handsome charmer with a shy smile and a pleasant tenor voice in carefree and inconsequential Warner Bros musicals of the forties, accompanied by Jack Carson."[1] Another said, "for all his undoubted star potential, Morgan was perhaps cast once too often as the likeable, clean-cut, easy-going but essentially uncharismatic young man who typically loses his girl to someone more sexually magnetic."[2] David Shipman said he "was comfortable, good-looking, well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart."[3]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Too slick to play Rick", The Guardian, October 18, 1994.
  2. ^ "Dennis Morgan; ObituaryZwork=The Times". September 16, 1994.
  3. ^ Shipman, David (September 10, 1994). "Obituary: Dennis Morgan". The Independent (3 ed.).

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