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  Frank Morgan - Alex Papps
Frank's father was a professional criminal while his mother was an alcoholic.
Frank became a street kid with the ambition to be as tough as his father whom he admired so much.
While Frank was under the jurisdiction of the Department, they were able to deny him access, but once he got older, Tom and Pippa told Frank the decision was his.
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  Frank Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949) was an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz.
Morgan's most famous role was in The Wizard of Oz (1939), where he played the wizard, the carnival huckster "Professor Marvel", the door warden to the Emerald City, the driver of the carrige drawn by "The horse of a different Color", the armed guard leading to the wizards hall, and the Wizard of Oz himself.
Having died in 1949, Morgan was the one major player from the movie who did not live to see The Wizard of Oz become an American institution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Morgan   (352 words)

  
 IM's Frank Morgan (Francis Philip Wupperman)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Frank handled the company's affairs in the West while he was there playing in motion pictures.
Morgan made $2,500 a week for his work on the film (the second highest paid actor after Ray Bolger's $3,000 -- Judy Garland only made $500 a week for her work on the film).
Frank died in his sleep (at the age of 59) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1949, seven years before his elder brother Ralph (who died in New York City on June 11, 1956).
www.irishmafia.us /morgan.html   (2459 words)

  
 Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz as the Wizard
Frank Morgan was born on June 1, 1890.
Morgan tried his hand at silent films but in 1914 returned to Broadway until the advent of "talkies".
Frank Morgan will forever be remembered fondly for the roles he played in the making of the classic film the Wizard of Oz.
www.kansasoz.com /infowizard.htm   (424 words)

  
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As perhaps Kansas City's most secretive millionaire, Frank Morgan changed the Kansas City skyline, provided financial opportunities to others and, at the time of his death, was charged with conspiring to defraud the government.
Morgan and a cousin acquired the company soon after it was founded and produced women's sportswear under store brand names.
Morgan and three associates were charged in 1993 with conspiring to defraud the government on office leases.
www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34891   (360 words)

  
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In the early morning of 07 December 1941 Frank and his wife were still in bed eating a breakfast of pineapple when the sudden explosive din roused them from their quarters.
Frank's arduous trip from Sasebo to Tokyo was memorable and during his brief, touching visit the old man praised General MacArthur's humanity and generosity.
In 1980 Frank was honored for his overall body of work as Academic with Gold Medal by the Accademia Italia delle Arti a el Lavori and examples of his sculptures appeared in the Bronzes, Sculptures and Founders Encyclopedia.
www.caroleestrup.com /frankjamesmorgan.html   (1093 words)

  
 Frank Morgan Reviews: MarsJazz Booking Agency
Frank Morgan, who opened at the Village Vanguard last night (December 9) and is now visiting New York for the first time, is an alto saxophonist who participated in the Central Avenue days of West Coast jazz.
Morgan lives in Topanga, but the two of us were in L.A. to work on a video documentary on Parker, for which I was to interview Morgan.
When Frank Morgan and his family arrived on Central Avenue, it was the hub of music and glamour and temptation.
www.marsjazz.com /frankmrev.html   (2258 words)

  
 Frank Morgan Biography: MarsJazz Booking Agency
Frank Morgan showed a great deal of promise in his early days, but it was a long time before he could fulfill his potential.
Morgan moved to Los Angeles in 1947 and was approached by Duke Ellington who wanted the then 15-year-old Frank to go on the road with his band.
Frank's father wanted his son to finish school so the Ellington gig never materialized, but by the time he was 17, Frank was working at LA's Club Alabam, backing the likes of Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday.
www.marsjazz.com /frankmbio.html   (588 words)

  
 Frank Morgan | Michelle Vogel | Book Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Frank Morgan in character as "The Wizard" in the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz.
I was surprised to learn recently that FRANK MORGAN, one of Hollywood's greatest character actors ever, does not have a book dedicated to his life and career.
Frank and his wife Alma (married for thirty-four years) had one child, a son, George, who died in 2005.
michellevogel.com /FrankMorgan.html   (305 words)

  
 Frank Morgan Quartet
It has been more than ten years since alto saxophonist Frank Morgan began his re-emergence after three decades of drug addiction and imprisonment.
Morgan stays close to the melody on this program of largely languid ballads, with only an occasional off-handed bebop reference.
Frank Morgan Quartet at Zanzibar Blue, 305 S. 11th St., Sun.-Tues., June 9-11 at 7 and 9:30p.m.
www.citypaper.net /articles/060696/article009.shtml   (214 words)

  
 Morgan's American Eskimos - Stacy & Frank Morgan, American Eskimo Dog Breeders, Anderson, South Carolina, USA - ...
Stacy and Frank Morgan have been breeding and showing their American Eskimo Dogs since 1997.
Morgan's From This Moment On (Shania), AKC Ch.
Frank Morgan They are members of the mammalian order Carnivora, or "Flesh Eaters." Although there are more than 400 Anderson different dog breeds, all dogs belong South Carolina to a single species, Canis familiaris.
www.geocities.com /morgans_eskimos   (2129 words)

  
 Jazz Police - Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan's energetic alto belies his 70+ years and three decades of heroin addiction.
The son of Ink Spots' guitarist Stanley Morgan was born in Minneapolis, moved to Milwaukee at age six, and studied guitar as a young child.
Thirty years went by before Frank Morgan made another recording as leader; in the interim he unfortunately followed too closely in the footsteps of his idol, experiencing heroin addiction and intermittent jail terms for possession.
www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/4860/2   (787 words)

  
 CONNECT - Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan showed a great deal of promise in his early days, but it was a long time before he could fulfill his potential.
The son of guitarist Stanley Morgan (who played with the Ink Spots), he took up clarinet and alto early on.
Morgan moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947 and won a talent contest,...
musicstore.connect.com /artist/101/499/1/1014991.html   (106 words)

  
 Frank Morgan Quartet Tickets - Frank Morgan Quartet Concert Tour Schedule - Frank Morgan Quartet Ticket Broker
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 The Sweet Sound: Frank Morgan Plays Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Morgan’s broad appeal was immediately apparent upon arriving at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Sculpture Garden, where a sold-out crowd waited eagerly for his set to begin.
This is the real secret to Morgan’s playing, and even the skeptic would have to nod in agreement and smile with appreciation at the personal prowess and honesty Morgan displays.
Morgan’s tone and interpretative skill elevate his ballad playing and show why he is still considered a master of his craft.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=636   (631 words)

  
 Frank Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Artist Frank Morgan has been painting and drawing since early childhood, having his first formal art lessons at the age of seven.
Later, while still in Boston, Frank Morgan received lessons in master drawing and human anatomy with professors from Boston University’s School of Fine Arts; concurrently, he began to copy masterworks by artists such as Rubens and Raphael, a program of self-study he continues to this day.
Frank Morgan presently divides his time between painting and architecture.
www.touristart.com /Artists/Morgan.htm   (204 words)

  
 Frank Morgan MP3 Downloads - Frank Morgan Music Downloads - Frank Morgan Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
When altoist Frank Morgan recorded his debut as a leader in 1955, he was being hyped as "the new Bird." Unfortunately, he followed in Charlie Parker's footsteps mostly by becoming an irresponsible drug addict.
This GNP album features Morgan back at the beginning, performing four numbers with Machito's rhythm section and six other songs with a septet that also includes tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray (heard on his final recordings).
Trumpeter Conte Candoli is a major asset on both of these boppish dates, while Morgan shows why he was rated so highly at this point in his career.
www.mp3.com /albums/111140/summary.html   (347 words)

  
 Frank Morgan
Years before he played The Wizard (and four other roles) in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Frank Morgan had a long career in silent film and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for The Affairs of Cellini (1934).
Although adept at flustered and bewildered comic roles, Morgan was also an excellent dramatic actor; he was an ever-present figure in many of MGM's classiest films of the period.
The most famous anecdote about Morgan is that while rehearsing for The Wizard of Oz, he went looking for a coat to help him feel like Prof.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+50579   (224 words)

  
 Alibris: Frank Morgan
After spending years developing a practical curriculum that draws on the creative arts to foster children's spiritual development, the author has developed a course of study that is both nondenominational and overtly positive.
The bestselling author of No Wrinkles on the Soul and I Never Found That Rocking Chair returns with a powerful yet comforting book of 80 meditations for the sick and their caregivers--gleaned from the author's own experiences as a hospital chaplain and from his journals written while recovering from surgery himself.
Letters are the foundation of language; out of language is born the ability to express the concepts of the mind, heart, and spirit.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Frank_Morgan   (678 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Coat of Baum's)
Since the portions of the film in which Morgan appeared (the Emerald City and Kansas sequences) were the last to be filmed, there was even more time to fiddle with the outfits worn by his various characters.
And Frank Morgan and the wardrobe man and [director] Victor Fleming got together and chose one.
The coat fitted Morgan and had the right look of shabby gentility, and one hot afternoon Frank Morgan turned out the pocket.
www.snopes2.com /movies/films/ozcoat.htm   (516 words)

  
 Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan, best known to all of us as The Wizard Of Oz, was in fact stage actor Francis ("Frank") Wuppermann, born in New York City in 1890 to a rich family famous for distributing bitters for cocktails (their product is still on the market to this day).
Frank Morgan trivia: One of Frank Morgan's most unusual roles was in the 1946 Nat Perrin comedy, The Great Morgan, where Frank actually played himself -- Frank Morgan, the bumbling character actor who decides MGM isn't treating him well enough, and so he takes movie-making into his own hands, with predictably disastrous results.
Morgan stars in three festival movies; TORTILLA FLAT on Saturday, July 19th, THE WIZARD OF OZ on July 31st and THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER on Saturday, September 4th.
www.filmnight.org /frankmorgan.htm   (467 words)

  
 Frank Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Morgan went to MIT and Princeton, where his thesis advisor, Fred Almgren, introduced him to minimal surfaces.
For several years Morgan served at Williams as Mathematics Department Chair and founding director of an NSF undergraduate research project.
Morgan has a weekly live call-in Math Chat on local cable TV, featured in Ivars Peterson's column MathLand, and a biweekly Math Chat column in The Christian Science Monitor, both available via his web page at www.williams.edu/Mathematics/fmorgan.
bgsu.edu /departments/math/Ohio-section/Meetings/Spring98/morgan.html   (343 words)

  
 Frank Morgan and T-Bone Wolk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Morgan and Wolk deliver a collection of well crafted and intelligent songs.
Frank Morgan has played many singer/songwriter venues throughout the West and East Coast.
More recently, he has recorded and produced Frank Morgan, Gary Rosen, and Derrik Jordan.
www.awal.com /artists/morgan_wolk   (310 words)

  
 Frank Morgan : Love, Lost & Found - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Frank Morgan moved from Antilles to Telarc with Love, Lost and Found, which emphasizes the altoist's romantic side and boasts Cedar Walton on piano, Ray Brown on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums.
Those who had been following Morgan's career knew that he was a magnificent ballad player, and ballads are a very high priority on this CD.
Though it doesn't offer a lot of surprises, Love, Lost and Found is a rewarding disc that admirers of Morgan's more romantic playing will appreciate.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,219351,00.html   (167 words)

  
 Frank Morgan: MarsJazz Booking Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Fully recovered from his 1998 stroke, Frank is playing better than ever and getting great reviews from critics and recent presenters alike.
His recovery has added a new chapter to a personal history of overcoming adversity, following his mid-80's comeback from three decades of drug addiction and prison, which resulted in mainstream media attention rare for a jazz musician (including a Jane Pauley primetime special) and remains uniquely compelling today.
In addition to his performances, Frank often appears before groups of prison inmates, recovering addicts, and at-risk youth...
www.marsjazz.com /frankm.html   (159 words)

  
 Frank Morgan (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Jovial, somewhat flamboyant Frank Morgan (born Francis Wuppermann) will...
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 Frank Morgan : Listen to the Dawn - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Listen to the Dawn is a rare example of Frank Morgan recording an entire album without a pianist.
The veteran alto saxophonist, who was only two weeks away from his 60th birthday when this post-bop/be bop CD was recorded, evidently wanted to try something a bit different -- and it was a move that paid off creatively.
Whether he's forming an intimate duo with guitarist Kenny Burrell or forming a quartet with Burrell, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Grady Tate, Morgan fares quite well without a pianist.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,214803,00.html   (184 words)

  
 Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan works in minimal surfaces and studies the behavior and structure of minimizers in various dimensions and settings.
The Double Bubble Theorem (Hutchings, Morgan, Ritore, Ros, Annals of Math 2002) says that the familiar double soap bubble provides the most efficient way to enclose and separate two given volumes in
More recently there have been partial extensions from
www.williams.edu /Mathematics/fmorgan   (285 words)

  
 IM Gallery: Frank Morgan Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Frank and Dorothy Bernard, 1918, in "The Man Who Came Back"
Frank in "The Affairs of Cellini" (for which Frank was nominated for an Oscar)
He appeared in the play as both a professor and a crook (this is a character study of him in the play).
www.irishmafia.us /mog1.html   (76 words)

  
 Dr. Frank Morgan, Superintendent, GCPS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Frank Morgan, Ed.D., is superintendent of Goochland County Public Schools.
Morgan invites you to contact him with a question.
To help Dr. Morgan streamline this process, and ensure your questions are answered, please use the subject line “Ask the Super” within your e-mail.
www.glnd.k12.va.us /superintendent.shtml   (592 words)

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