Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 â€"
September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting
pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he
gained his greatest fame.According to one obituary, he was "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." Another said, "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." David Shipman said he "was comfortable, good-looking,
well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart."Morgan was born in
the village of Prentice in Price County in northern Wisconsin, the son
of Grace J. (née Vandusen) and Frank Edward Morner. He was of Swedish
descent on his father's side.He enrolled at Carroll College, now known
as Carroll University, in Waukesha, Wisconsin as a member of the 1930
graduating class. He was awarded the Carroll College Distinguished
Alumnus Award in 1983.
September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting
pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he
gained his greatest fame.According to one obituary, he was "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." Another said, "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." David Shipman said he "was comfortable, good-looking,
well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart."Morgan was born in
the village of Prentice in Price County in northern Wisconsin, the son
of Grace J. (née Vandusen) and Frank Edward Morner. He was of Swedish
descent on his father's side.He enrolled at Carroll College, now known
as Carroll University, in Waukesha, Wisconsin as a member of the 1930
graduating class. He was awarded the Carroll College Distinguished
Alumnus Award in 1983.
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