The Helen Morgan Story - Can't help lovin' that Man of Mine

Helen Morgan (Ann Blyth) sings to lover, Larry Maddux (Paul Newman). The song is Loving That Man of Mine. Blyth is dubbed by Gogi Grant.

The Helen Morgan Story is to be released on DVD by Warner Bros on February 17th 2009.

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Film & Animation

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• Paul
• Newman
• Gogi
• Grant
• Ann
• Blyth
• Helen
• Morgan
• Story

[7855waldo]

Great-until the ending gets cut off!!!!!!

[en9nui]

Of the projects mentioned as possibilities for J. Garland in the late fifties (e.g. Carousel, South Pacific), The Helen Morgan Story probably would have made the best fit for her. 

[aimperator]

Thatt movie was called The Miracle, it starred Carol Baker, she plays a num and leaves and the Blessed Mother taks her place.What you ar thinkig about is Sally and St. Anne. Ann Blyth plays a shool girl who parys to St.Anne who answers her prayers Soon all of her friends ask her to pary to St..Anne for them, its a cute movie.

[msdonnaleeroch]

I'm trying to find the movie with Ann Blyth, she's in a catholic school she leaves and the Madonna takes her place

[Belle0308]

I LOVE this movie. It is so different in a way for movies of that era. There is great saddness and struggle and triumph. The movie is rather losely based on Helen's life,but it make a good film all the same. Paul Newman and Anny Blyth are great in it.

[14DAVEY]

@Thunderbird7090 Thankyou, the Garland angle is new to me, & makes sense. Certainly Gogi Grant's beautiful voice (though unlike Helen Morgan) was more fashionable, and has remained so. But I'm suprised, then that Ann Blyth, whom you consider inferior, should have been selected by MGM to sing with Mario Lanza, not once but twice - rather like Grayson :) It's a Hollywood pity that's all, hiring a delicate soprano to play a delicate soprano & replacing her voice with something quite different!

[Thunderbird7090]

@patsyclinenet I've read Charlie Dick saying it was Gogi Grant who was one of Patsy's favorite singers because of her big sound & style (she did do the only great cover of Gogi's The Wayward Wind & it was Patsy's love of all things Hollywood & the old standards & torch songs that had her determined to make one of her next albums one of such songs. How sad we never got to keep her around. She too would probably still be singing strong. I also know for a fact that Streisand plays this album a LOT

[Thunderbird7090]

@14DAVEY Before turning on each other Warner hoped to shove Judy Garland into the hackneyed script on the shelf since the 40's. It was mentioned as pt of her 2 pic deal for Star is Born Though they ended at each others throats he never got over his love of her as a singer so he had Heindorf, Music Dir to find a "Garlandesque voice" Blyth's thin soprano was at best pretty. MGM nearly dubbed her 3 flops there. She was no Kathryn Grayson. & Gogi's soundtrack stayed on Billboard's top 50 for 2 yrs

[Thunderbird7090]

@rickjeffers1 Really, She has so many siblings I don't know their names but her son contacted me recently about my upload of her appearance on The Nat King Cole Show. She's the greatest. Still doing great & only recently saying she's probably not going to sing anymore - again. She still sounds amazing. Her voice stopped aging at 40.

[rickjeffers1]

@Thunderbird7090 wow, her brother Stan was friend with my Uncle Sol, from the flower business, he offered to take me to meet her years ago and I never took Him on it but I've been listening to her forever, I had the Torch time album and Helen Morgan story but lost them, some 30 yrs ago