The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

The Helen Morgan Story 1957 The 1920s and 30s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak easy and chorus girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfelds Show Boat Her involvement with Larry Maddux, a gin runner and con man, and Russell Wade, a prominent, married New York lawyer, and her decline thanks to these failed romances and alcohol are punctuated by performances of many of the songs she made famous