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In 1933, he married his high school sweetheart, and they were still Mr.
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He never refused a role, didn’t throw tantrums or get into brawls he never once set foot inside a divorce court, except on film. bad boys as Bogart and Errol Flynn, Morgan caused his bosses no grief whatsoever.
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(Check out The Return of Doctor X from 1939.) And unlike such Warner Bros. He eased into almost any role or genre and, for fourteen productive years at Warner, bounced between musicals, westerns, comedies, war stories, dramas, even once a horror flick with a zombie that looked exactly like Humphrey Bogart. And you remember things like that.” She also points out he was “an extremely valuable kind of person for a studio to have under contract because he could easily fit into any slot.” Script alterations may have been needed to fit a Cagney or Robinson but not Morgan. (Similarly, at the same studio, Ida Lupino got the hand-me-downs of Bette Davis.) One of Morgan’s former leading ladies, Olivia de Havilland, recalls him as “very pleasant to work with, always well prepared and polite. For one thing, he was a bigger star than Reagan who, in the minds of most-including Warner’s-was a swell fellow, but the one you’d cast only if Morgan wasn’t available. who would have been cast as the governor. In the days when Reagan and Morgan were both under contract to Warner, it was Dennis M. Ronald Reagan as best friend.” It’s a quote that’s both droll and understandable. Warner what he thought of the idea of Reagan as governor. At the time, someone asked Reagan’s old Warner Bros. Our star of the month, Dennis Morgan, is probably best known today because of a widely-circulated quip which was born when Ronald Reagan was campaigning to be the Governor of California back in 1966.