Helen Morgan(1900-1941)

She became very famous in the 1920s and was popular throughout the 1930s, but she is not well-remembered today, except perhaps by musical theatre buffs. This is due partly to the fact that all her recordings date from the 1920s and 1930s and they are not often found in stores, but it is also partly due to the fact that her best and most often seen film, the 1936 version of Show Boat (1936), is not shown on television as often as it could be (the 1951 Technicolor remake, Mississippi-Melodie (1951), with Ava Gardner playing Ms. Morgan's role, has been frequently shown on TV, instead). Ms. Morgan's other films are very rarely -or never- seen, so relatively few film enthusiasts are acquainted with her work.