Diana Morgan

Diana Morgan may refer to:

Diana Morgan (screenwriter)

Mary Diana Morgan (born 29 May 1908, Cardiff, Wales – d. 9 December 1996 in Northwood, Middlesex, England) was a Welsh playwright and screenwriter, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robert MacDermot.

Career

Mary Diana Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales on 29 May 1908. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She began her career in show business as an actress and chorus girl and was on stage in 1931. On 8 September 1934, she married Robert MacDermot Barbour (b. 19 March 1910 in Poona, India), who would become Head of BBC TV Drama in 1948. They had a son Richard Morgan Derry MacDermot Barbour.

After their marriage, they began writing as a partnership. Their early work was for the London stage and include a full revue in 1938 at the London Hippodrome, Black and Blue, starring Frances Day, Vic Oliver and Max Wall. Impressed with their witty and satirical scripts Morgan and MacDermot were later hired by stage director Norman Marshall to write a stage show for Hermione Gingold. Although slow to begin the show was a great success, selling out for its eight-week run.

Diana Morgan (actress)

Diana Morgan (born September 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois) is an actress and former television news anchor for WAVY-TV Hampton Roads, Virginia. She was the first African-American to anchor a Hampton Roads newscast. She has since been cast in numerous television shows and movies as a newscaster or television news anchor, most notably in the James Cameron film, Titanic.

Television news

Morgan began her career on television stints in Evansville, Indiana, Nashville, Tennessee and Champaign, Illinois before her arrival at Portsmouth, Virginia's WAVY-TV in January, 1981 as weeknight evening co-anchor. Morgan was first paired with co-anchor Bob Grip until 1984 when Terry Zahn replaced Bob Grip as weeknight co-anchor to Morgan. She has anchored the primetime evening newscasts on Channel 10 with newscaster Terry Zahn for 5 1/2 years and the duo was the most-watched 11 p.m. newscast team, according to the Arbitron ratings.

Prior to a September 29, 1988 newscast, Morgan walked out of the station following a dispute about an edit on a report she had filed. Morgan left WAVY in December 1989 for WCIX in Miami, where she served as weekend news anchor, later becoming the weekday evening anchor until she left WCIX in 1994.