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John Morton Downey [1] (November 14, 1901 – October 25, 1985), also known as Morton Downey, was an American singer and entertainer popular in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, enjoying his greatest success in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Morton Downey Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001), born Sean Morton Downey, was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.
The New York Times said, "Mr. Downey's singing is in the gruff country mode of Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson but lacks the emphatic firmness of tone and pitch that gives even spoken monologues by those singers an underlying sense of musical cadence. Morton Downey Jr. Sings is anything but subtle." [2]
Singer and composer Morton Downey, Sr., the father of the talk show host, recorded the song in 1925 and released it as Brunswick 2887. Eva Shirley sang the song in Ed Wynn's Grab Bag, a Broadway musical which opened in 1924 at the Globe. Leo Feist published the sheet music for the Shirley version in 1924 featuring Eva Shirley on the cover.
It was broadcast five nights a week, with Morton Downey starring on three nights and Quinlan starring on two. [1] Downey left the program on December 9, 1949, [6] and Quinlan moved into the thrice-weekly schedule. [1] Quinlan's appearance on the show was enhanced by various jewels that on one episode had a value of $250,000, with armed guards ...
Robert Downey Jr. Alan Singer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images and Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images. ... Most recently, Minor, 55, appeared in "Abbott Elementary" as Mr. Morton, an eighth ...
Her elder sisters were actress Constance Bennett and actress/dancer Barbara Bennett, who was the first wife of singer Morton Downey and the mother of Morton Downey Jr. Part of a famous theatrical family, Bennett's maternal grandfather was Jamaica-born Shakespearean actor Lewis Morrison, who embarked on a stage career in the late 1860s.
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