Helen Morgan
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Filmography
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I Called Him Morgan
(2016)Helen Morgan had nursed her common-law husband, jazz great Lee Morgan, through heroin addiction. On a February night in 1972, she walked into Slug's Saloon in the East Village with a gun in her purse, and after they fought and he physically threw her out of the bar, she returned and shot him. Then, Helen relinquished the gun and waited for the police to come for her. Many years later, she was interviewed about her life with the brilliant and unpredictable musician.

Glorifying the American Girl
(1929)A struggling chorus girl makes ends meet selling sheet music in a Manhattan department store while pursuing her dream of making the Ziegfeld Follies.

Marie Galante
(1934)A US detective becomes entangled with a French dancer as he attempts to foil a bomb plot in the Panama Canal Zone.

The World of Miss World
(1974)An inside look into the harsh realities of 1974’s Miss World beauty contest, where beneath the glamour lies a hotbed of bullying, and sexism.

Slavers
(1978)Set in late-19th century East Africa at the end of the slave era, two dueling traders wage violent war over what’s left of the industry’s profits.