Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Nicky Blair
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Storyline
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- TriviaThe title role was declined by two actresses who had recently headlined successful biopics of troubled songstresses: Doris Day (Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)) and Susan Hayward (Lillian Roth in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)), neither of whom wanted to repeat a similar earlier role.
- GoofsIn real life, Helen Morgan married three times. In the film, she never marries.
- Quotes
Larry Maddux: Do yourself a favor. Hire the kid.
Whitey Krause: I hope your hooch is better than your suggestion, Larry. What's the canary to you.
Larry Maddux: Nuthin'. I'm just a music lover. Besides, I don't go for that sad stuff she sings.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Great Canadian Supercut (2017)
- SoundtracksCan't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Ann Blyth (dubbed by Gogi Grant) at the end
Originally from the musical "Show Boat"
Featured review
Some Like It Not
It's all there, professional hardware and expertise, up on the
cinemascope screen - but for two oddities: the lead roles.
Newman and Blyth look good (she even looks like Debbie's older
sister as seen in Singin In the Rain) and Newman at 30 is about at
handsome as the 50s screen ever was........but they are both light
for grim roles. Doris Day pulled it off in Love Me Or Leave Me and
Cagney was the full gargoyle as Marty the Gimp which is probably
what the Larry role Needed from Newman...but he was really too
pretty. Looking alot like how Some Like It Hot turned out, it looks
like it wants to be a comedy....which it probably now almost is.
Anne Blyth is Minnie Mouse, I think and that is what doesn't help.
And where's Joan Blondell when WB need her......and I bet Richard
Carlson kissed Michael Curtiz feet in gratitude for the high profile
role here after all those D grade schlockers he had prior. He even
had his name in lights in the fabulous credits. This is alot like the
1933 CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS without the laughs. This film is
so well made, but it doesn't work, whereas other bios from the
same period are dynamic. Like for Doris Day and Susan Hayward.
cinemascope screen - but for two oddities: the lead roles.
Newman and Blyth look good (she even looks like Debbie's older
sister as seen in Singin In the Rain) and Newman at 30 is about at
handsome as the 50s screen ever was........but they are both light
for grim roles. Doris Day pulled it off in Love Me Or Leave Me and
Cagney was the full gargoyle as Marty the Gimp which is probably
what the Larry role Needed from Newman...but he was really too
pretty. Looking alot like how Some Like It Hot turned out, it looks
like it wants to be a comedy....which it probably now almost is.
Anne Blyth is Minnie Mouse, I think and that is what doesn't help.
And where's Joan Blondell when WB need her......and I bet Richard
Carlson kissed Michael Curtiz feet in gratitude for the high profile
role here after all those D grade schlockers he had prior. He even
had his name in lights in the fabulous credits. This is alot like the
1933 CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS without the laughs. This film is
so well made, but it doesn't work, whereas other bios from the
same period are dynamic. Like for Doris Day and Susan Hayward.
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- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was The Helen Morgan Story (1957) officially released in Canada in English?
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