The Helen Morgan Story

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Steve D Newman is good the film is not. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/08/23 Full Review ashley h The Helen Morgan is a decent film. It is about torch singer Helen Morgan who rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune. Ann Blyth and Paul Newman give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Michael Curtiz did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama and music. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The biopic of a woman who, despite her connections with the wrong men and the tumult of the roaring twenties, rises to showbiz prominence. I don't know anything about the real Helen Morgan, so the comparisons between the film and actual events are lost on me. If there are inaccuracies, they should've elected to make the story more interesting. As it is, the rise to fame is rather basic, and the film's chronicle of Morgan's rise is uneven. As a film, the story is interrupted by musical numbers that only occasionally reflect the action that we're supposed to be most concerned with. Also, Ann Blyth and Paul Newman have almost no chemistry, which is odd considering the fact that Newman made a career out of leveraging his irresistible charm. When Newman's character says that he's "stuck on her" and when Morgan sings love songs in his general direction, I can't understand why or what motivated their romance. Overall, if you like the music of the roaring twenties, those beginnings of jazz, then you'll love the soundtrack, but try to ignore the attempts at a story interrupting the songs. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Classy production of a performer who I'd never heard of before, but it's a rather TV Movie of the Week quality of melodrama about singer Helen Morgan's rise and fall due to bad romances and alcoholism. Ann Blyth plays Morgan, but Paul Newman in an early film role nearly steals the film. Director Michael Curtiz also brings some flair to the Jazz Age setting and that also goes a long ways, but the melodrama itself if little better than a run of the mill soap opera/ Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Run-of-the-mill musical bio lacks energy. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member year s/b 1957 for this bio-pic Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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