Dennis Morgan Movies

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1. Added Steve’s Dennis Morgan YouTube video to this page. My comments found on his video channel found below.

   Good video. Voted up and shared. I have seen 8 of the Dennis Morgan movies in the video and an additional one of his other movies. Favorites would include Christmas in Connecticut and The Fighting 69th. A very big star back in the glory days of Hollywood….but not somebody with a large following today. Good stuff.

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   1. Hi Bruce, I wasn’t that familiar with Dennis Morgan until you uploaded this UMR page on the actor. I’ve seen 5, your tally 8 and Flora out in front with 23.

      Thanks again for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.

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2. Thank you for the Dennis Morgan page….As I stated before like his Warner Bros. costar Ann Sheridan he was extremely versatile, enormously popular until the early 50’s and like Sheridan virtually forgotten….He was a fine dramatic actor, had great comedic timing and was an excellent singer….Catch Dennis and Sheridan at the peak of their talent, looks and charisma in the technicolor finale of their 1944 smash hit “Shine On Harvest Moon.” Of course Sheridan’s wonderful singing voice is sadly dubbed over here by someone else but Morgan’s voice is his own and they look stunning together in color …. WB suddenly trashed his career in the early 50’s by putting him in crap similar to how they ruined Kay Francis in 1938-1939….All of Morgan’s 40’s films show him at his best with many highlights: THE HARD WAY (1942) with Ida Lupino, IN THIS OUR LIFE (1942) with Bette Davis and Olivia deHavilland, WINGS OF THE EAGLE (1942) and ONE MORE TOMORROW (1946) with Sheridan and Jack Carson, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) with Barbara Stanwyck and IT’S A GREAT FEELING(1949) with Jack Carson. Doris Day and Joan crawford. ……

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3. I saw 5 including top 3. no 10s. Christmas in conn. a 9, I just watched kitty foyle a 8 with ginger rogers in a fine dramatic effort. Hollywood canteen is my lowest rated favorite a 7. the cameos are worth seeing in a true story about bette davis. the great Ziegfeld a 7. that’s entertainment a 7.

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4. Thanks for the feedback. Song of the City, Navy Blue and Gold and Archie’s “Suzy” all of which you HAVE included were also Morgan’s Stanley Morner flicks. I’ve never seen Suzy but I would take it that Dennis true to form loses the girl to the up and coming charmer Al Leach.

   Actually Dennis was born EARL Stanley Morner. I used to think he was Irish because Dennis and Morgan are quite common names over here and he appeared in My Wild Irish Rose and 3 Cheers for the Irish and also starred with Cagney and Pat O’Brien in films and they regarded themselves as Irish Americans. However I gather that Morgan, born in Wisconsin, was of Swedish descent on his father’s side.

   Your listings reminded me that when he was on top Dennis co-starred with two of my own legends: Doris and Joan in It’s a Great Felling and This Woman is Dangerous respectively. YOU don’t think much of those 2 flicks [51% Review rating each] but out of fan loyalty I’ve been trying to track them down for years but it’s been as fruitless as trying to find a good word that Joel has to say about Mr Mumbles!

   For some reason, though we get many TV re-runs of old Gable/Cagney/Bogie/Bette Davis films for example over here Joan and Doris don’t seem to get the same love from Northern Irish TV stations that many other legends of yesteryear do. But your new pages always keep me on my toes so I’ll keep looking.

   [Every Christmas we used to get alternated 2-weeks seasons of the old gangster flicks of Humph and The Dirty Rat. For a time watching them used to be the thing I looked forward to most at XMAS, having stopped believing in Santa Claus until YOU came along!]

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   1. Hey Bob. Thanks for the follow return comment. Suzy is one of the few Cary Grant movies that I’ve not seen. I agree I am sure Dennis lost out Carrie when he came to the girl. I hope you were able to track down those two movies soon. Good stuff.

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5. As mentioned above Dennis Morgan in his early days was known as Richard Stanley and I never saw any of his movies when he went by that name. Before that though he was called Stanley Morner but I saw only one movie in which he called himself that: 1936’s The Great Ziegfeld in which he sang Irving Berlin’s A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody.

   In fact all-told I saw only 3 of Dennis’ other films and those were when his heyday had ended: Cattle Town [1952] and Pearl of the South Pacific and The Gun that Won the West, both released in 1955. In the last one if I remember correctly the debonair Dennis had gone and he had put on weight. It was released as a supporting feature over here.

   Here is what 3 critics thought of Morgan’s heyday persona: “(1) 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 (2) 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 (3) David Shipman said he ‘was comfortable, good-looking, well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart.’”

   Wow! – an appraisal NOW on this site from ( instead of the ‘Usual SuspecT’) the great movie historian David Shipman, renowned author of famous profiles of Deanna Durbin, Brando, Olivier, Hitchcock and Chaplin. “Voted Up!”

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   1. Hey Bob. As always you bring a different perspective when looking at these movie stars. Sadly, Joel did not include Dennis Morgan in his book. So I am glad that you were able to include the thoughts from David Shipman. I like his breakdown of Morgan, it makes sense to me. I saw that his name changed many times during the course of his career. In the end, I think you picked a good name. I did not include The Great Ziegfeld, but it seems I should include him now, based on your comment. IMDb listed him as uncredited, but it seems he was in the movie enough to be included here. Good stuff.

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