Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan (born May 3, 1924) is an American popular music singer. Morgan initially found success in France and the UK before achieving recognition in the US. She received six gold records.

Early life

Morgan was born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts on May 3, 1924, one of five children born to musicians Olga (Brandenburg) and Bertram Currier. When she was four years old, the Currier family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. At five she began vocal lessons while continuing piano lessons. During the summers, she took on child roles and appeared in theater productions at the Kennebunkport Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine, which her brother had founded.In 1941, she was listed as the Treasurer of the Kennebunkport Playhouse. While attending grade school, Morgan actively engaged in singing and competing against other students throughout Florida and the Southeast. After graduating from Seabreeze High School, she and her multiple musical talents were promptly accepted into New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music. Intending to become an opera singer, she studied opera by day and performed whenever possible.

Jane Morgan (actress)

Jane Morgan (1880–1972) was a British-born American actress and singer whose career encompassed concert halls, vaudeville, the legitimate stage, radio, television, and film, best known as Eve Arden's scheming landlady Mrs. Davis on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

Early life

Jennie “Jane” Morgan was born in England to Welsh parents on December 6, 1880 and within a year would cross the Atlantic to be raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon her graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music she began performing with the Boston Opera Company as a singer and violin player earning $25 per week. By 1900 she was living with her widowed father and a brother in Anaconda, Montana, where she became a frequent performer in amateur theater productions and community events. Her father, Roderick “Rod” Morgan worked as a blacksmith in Anaconda while her older brother, Charles, supported his family as a machinist.

Marriage

On Sunday, February 17, 1901, she married Leo Cullen Bryant, a 23-year-old native of Albion, Wisconsin, who taught music and headed the Margaret Theater Orchestra in Anaconda. The following month the Bryants opened a music school in Butte, Montana, teaching piano and violin. A few years later they moved their business to Nampa, Idaho and shortly thereafter began performing on the vaudeville circuit. Leo Bryant would eventually become known as a pioneer symphony violinist and innovative music teacher. The couple had a daughter, Aline (aka Alice), and would remain together until Leo's death in Los Angeles on March 20, 1955.