Johnston. However, the years of alcohol abuse had taken their toll. She collapsed onstage during a performance of George White's Scandals of 1942 and died in Chicago of cirrhosis of the liver on October 9, 1941. She was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. In popular culture Morgan was portrayed by Polly Bergen in a 1957 Playhouse 90 drama, The Helen Morgan Story, directed by George Roy Hill. Bergen won an Emmy Award for her performance. That same year, the feature film The Helen Morgan Story starred Ann Blyth as Morgan. Filmography Six Cylinder Love, 1923 The Heart Raider, 1923 Show Boat, 1929 (in the prologue only, she appeared as Julie La Verne and sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill") Applause, 1929 (sang "What Wouldn't I Do for That Man" and "Give Your Little Baby Lots of Lovin'") Glorifying the American Girl, 1930 (sang "What Wouldn't I Do for That Man") Roadhouse Nights, 1930 (sang "It Can't Go on Like This") The Gigolo Racket, 1931 short subject (sang "Nobody Breaks My Heart" and "I Know He's Mine") Manhattan Lullaby, 1933 short subject (sang "The Stork Song") The Doctor, 1934 short subject (sang "One Little Smile") Frankie and Johnny, 1936 (sang "Give Me a Heart to Sing To" and "If You Want My Heart") You Belong to Me, 1934 (sang "When He Comes Home to Me") Marie Galante, 1934 (sang "Song of a Dreamer" and "Serves Me Right for Treating You Wrong") Sweet Music, 1935 (sang "I See Two Lovers") Go into Your Dance, 1935 (sang "The Little Things You Used to Do") Show Boat, 1936 (as Julie La Verne, she sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill") Stage Sally, 1923 (chorus) Scandals,1925–1926 (first principal role) Americana, 1926 American Grand Guignol, 1927 (sang "Nobody Wants Me") Show Boat, 1927–1929 (as Julie La Verne she sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill") Sweet Adeline, 1929–1931 (starring role singing "T'was Not So Long Ago", "Here am I", "Why Was I Born?", "The Sun About to Rise" and "Don't Ever Leave Me!") Ziegfeld Follies, 1931 (sang "Half-Caste Woman", lyrics by Noël Coward) Show Boat, 1932–1933 Memory, 1934 (starring role singing "A Fool There Was") A Night at the Moulin Rouge, 1939 Show Boat , 1940 (as Julie La Verne she sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill") See also List of deaths through alcohol References Bibliography Leckrone,