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  Henry Morgan (comedian)
Morgan first made his name hosting a radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the early 1940s, often cracking jokes at the expense of his sponsors and frequently losing a sponsor in the process.
Morgan made one movie, ''So This is New York'' (1948), in which he had the lead role, and though Morgan and the film received favourable critical reviews it didn't go over as well with the public as his radio and later television work did.
Morgan's tenure on the show was marked by his periodic complaints about the (allegedly) horrid conditions in which he had to work, in between firing questions at the show's guests with the secrets.
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 Comedian Henry Cho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Harry Morgan Trivia - Harry Morgan Facts - Harry Morgan Notes
Morgan was married to Eileen Detchon for 45 years till she died.
Morgan was billed as Henry Morgan for fifteen years till he changed his name to Henry in the 1950s.
Morgan had originally planned on becoming a lawyer until his interests in the theater were stirred.
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 Harry Morgan
Morgan was married for 45 years to stage actress Eileen Detchon, until her death.
In 1996, in an argument after attending a party, Morgan was arrested for beating Quine, and according to the police report, she had "a red, swollen left foot, a one-quarter-inch cut near her right eye and a bruised right arm." Charges were dropped when he agreed to attend anger management classes.
Henry -- not Harry -- Morgan starred in the films So This Is New York with Rudy Vallee and Murder Inc. with Stuart Whitman and Peter Falk, and had a supporting role in the short-lived James Thurber sitcom My World and Welcome To It.
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 Henry Morgan - Moviefone
The original "bad boy of radio," Henry Morgan began his career as a page boy at New York radio station WMCA in 1932.
It is a historical fiction with Henry Morgan as the main character.
Biography of the infamous buccaneer Henry Morgan and his adventures with the Caribbean Pirates and Buccaneers on Jamaica.
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 More info about the poet: - references bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morgan, Henry (1635?–88), Welsh buccaneer; commissioned by the governor of Jamaica to take Spanish possessions, he ravaged the coast of Cuba and captured...
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: From the Pit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morgan first appeared on the wireless scene over a decade ago directly behind 710 on your dial, --if your dial happened to be in the vicinity of New York city.
The Henry Morgan show, a half hour of sporadic Sunday night drollery is sponsored by the Fred Allen show, another half hour of the same sort of thing.
One of the more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows.
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 Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morgan is both a given name and a surname, as well as the name of many places.
Morgan le Fay is the half-sister of King Arthur.
Morgan horse breed, a versatile American breed of horse used in the English and Western disciplines, Saddleseat riding, and for driving
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By 1940, Morgan was employed by New York’s WOR and the station’s powers-that-be were not amused by his antics—it was thought that if they gave the young upstart a 15-minute program buried on Saturday mornings it might help get the foolishness out of his system.
Morgan would be introduced to the strains of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” and would offer up a casual “Good evening, anybody…here’s Morgan” (which he had cribbed from Kate Smith’s popular greeting “Hello everybody!”).
My enthusiasm for Henry Morgan no doubt stems from my admiration for Fred Allen, since the two comedians had similar comedic styles (Morgan was even a frequent guest on Fred’s show, including his last broadcast).
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Morgan Stanley is set to trump its US investment rivals and obtain a coveted Chinese commercial banking licence, paving the way for it to conduct business in the local renminbi currency, a press report has said.
Morgan Stanley has restructured its bonus scheme to enable its bankers to invest part of their remuneration into alternatives businesses run by the firm.
Both the Morgan and Valley boys soccer teams are planning to extend their seasons as long as possible, with each team hoping to play well...
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 LIFE MAGAZINE April 14, 1947
In fact, Henry Morgan was one of the first media "personalities" that was popular because of his own opinions rather than the delivery of prepared material.
Morgan entered into a long running gag with Larry Adler, the harmonica virtuouso, over Adler's sideline, The Elevator Shoe.
Henry Morgan never worked again on radio, although he had been "rehabilitated" enough by the 1960s that he could serve as a regular Panelist on I've Got a Secret.
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 Morgan
Morgan is both a given name and a surname, as well as the name of several places.
The surname Morgan is of Welsh origin, meaning "of the sea", and is a popular family name in that country.
William Morgan, scientist who won the Copley Medal in 1789 "for his two Papers on the values of Reversions and Survivorships, printed in the two last volumes of the Philosophical Transactions" (presumably in the field of actuarial science)
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Morgan was named in Red Channels, but for such a frivolous reason that no one - not even CBS - took it seriously.
Morgan was essentially an apolitical curmudgeon who shot darts at any pompous balloon he saw floating by.
Certainly he was no "Communist dupe." The closest he came to being duped was by his wife, who, Morgan told me, was a leftist sympathizer, an(was understood that one reason Morgan was getting a divorce was his aversion to Mrs.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
May 19, 1994), an American comedian, is remembered best in two modern media: radio, on which he first became familiar as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist
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Morgan continued radio appearances, most often on the NBC weekend show NBC Monitor (which also afforded the final airings to longtime radio favourites Fibber McGee and Molly, until co-star Marian Jordan's death), as well as playing guest panelist on other game shows produced by the Goodson-Todman team
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 Comprehensive information and links about Alfred E. Neuman
Morgan began with on Mutual, ABC and NBC.
The possible linkage is that Laird Cregar portrayed Sir Henry Morgan in (1942) with Tyrone Power, and the Oscar-nominated score for that film was by Newman.
Morgan later became a Mumblings The foremost MAD discussion forum, this comprehensive site includes reviews and analysis, trivia, historical context, and exclusive interviews with some of the magazine's writers and artists
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 The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media
Comedian Henry Morgan, host of the radio program HERE'S MORGAN, was born in New York City on this day in 1915.
It's the birthday of poet and novelist Octavio Paz (THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE), born in Mexico City in 1914.
Magazine publisher Henry R. Luce, founder of TIME magazine, FORTUNE and LIFE, was born on this day to missionary parents in Tengchow, China, 1898.
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 Morgan, Henry — Infoplease.com
Sir Henry Morgan - Morgan, Sir Henry, 1635?–1688, Welsh buccaneer.
Lewis Henry Morgan - Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818–81, American anthropologist, b.
Charles Henry MORGAN - MORGAN, Charles Henry (1842—1912) MORGAN, Charles Henry, a Representative from Missouri; born...
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 Henry Morgan (comedian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He'd had an unhappy childhood that warped him a little and gave him a sour outlook on life.
That he was any kind of Communist sympathizer was a dubious proposition at best; Nachman noted Morgan's listing sprang from his former wife's leftist affiliations, and Morgan himself confirmed it in his memoir:
Panelists included comedians Joey Adams and Orson Bean, model and personality Dagmar, and future Gilligan's Island co-star Jim Backus.
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 Alfred E Neuman : Comics SuperHeroes Cartoons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morgan on WOR in 1940, continuing until 1950 with Here's Morgan on Mutual, ABC and NBC.
The possible linkage is that Laird Cregar portrayed Sir Henry Morgan in The Black Swan (1942) with Tyrone Power, and the Oscar-nominated score for that film was by Newman.
Morgan later became a Mad contributor with "The Truth about Cowboys" in issue #33.
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 Canned Laughter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One old-time comedian I know little about now but want to learn much more about in the near future is Henry Morgan.
One of Morgan's radio sponsors — until they fired him — was the makers of the Oh, Henry candy bars.
While doing commercials for Oh, Henry candy bars, Morgan would say, "Yes, Oh Henry is a meal in itself.
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 majonez.info. Info of majonez. itala, major, morgan, fissore, pontiac, gearbox, spoiler, fuel injection, bugatti, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Their first car won a hill climb, the year after they won the Coppa Florio and the year after that the Targa Florio.
By about 1925 the company was being run under receivership and after many attempts to revive the company, Itala was closed in 1934.
Since the 1957 introduction of the pontiac cleveland ohio Bonneville, Pontiac marketing has emphasized performance; the division's slogan for many years was.
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 Murder, Inc. - Synopsis - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The activities of Buchhalter's murder-for-hire operation are played against a fictional story about a nightclub singer (Stuart Whitman) and a dancer (May Britt).
Murder, Inc. has a queasy, unsettling quality, due in part to some offbeat casting: TV comedian Henry Morgan costars as a dead-serious federal agent, while "human joke machine" Morey Amsterdam shows up as a cabaret entertainer who is gunned down by the mob.
The film was a major boost for the career of Peter Falk, who very nearly managed to parlay his Murder, Inc. supporting role into an Academy Award.
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 More on Morgan
But now, the young Morgan Hill man is in a foreign hospital with severe wounds of his own.
Tony Morgan, the formerly dominant force on the Chicago-area circuit for more than a decade, has become the second driver in harness-racing history to win 1,000 races in one year.
Click here to see a slide show Grapes collected from the vines around Morgan Creek Vineyard near New Ulm literally took their first step toward becoming a new vintage of wine Saturday as the juice was stomped out of them at the vineyard's annual Harvest Grape Stomp.
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 Radio Hall of Fame - Stan Freberg, Comedian
As a young man, he provided voices for Warner Brothers cartoons and appeared on radio in support of Benny, Phil Harris and Henry Morgan.
He rose to prominence in 1950 with the record “John and Marsha,” which spoofed radio soap operas.
In 1954 Freberg starred in the short-lived situation comedy That’s Rich, but it was his 1957 Stan Freberg Show for CBS that made him “the last network radio comedian in America.” Here he demonstrated his satirical nature by poking fun at everything from censorship to advertising to the excesses of Las Vegas.
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 Amazon.com: "new comedians": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The comedians of the fifties and sixties were a totally different species from any...
These new comedians mostly wrote their own material-giving them more of an image of expressing their own thoughts and feelings-as opposed to traditional...
Leading industry professionals are seeking anyone with talent and aspirations to become a successful model, actor, dancer, singer or comedian.
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 ECHOES OF A CENTURY: Henry Morgan on Odeo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
ECHOES OF A CENTURY: Henry Morgan on Odeo
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1941 and 1942 broadcasts of the fllisted radio comedian who was known as “The Bad Boy of Radio” for how he treated sponsors on the air.
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 Biography of Arnold Stang -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Never known as a solo performer (despite the existence of an unsold television pilot called The Arnold Stang Show), he works best in, and prefers, an ensemble cast in which he plays only one of a diverse group of comic characters.
He was popular in the late 1940s as a sidekick to comedian Henry Morgan (comedian)Henry Morgan on the latter's old-time radio show.
He also is well remembered as the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Top Cat.
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 Listen In On The WRVO Playhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Singer Ethel Merman will appear as special guest during tonight’s episode of the “Henry Morgan Show” from October, 1949.
Comedian Henry Morgan stars as the ‘God of Trivia’ in this interesting story from an astounding author.
The show served as a reminder to a nation what their freedom meant and where it came from, and included a powerful epilogue by President Roosevelt.
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