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    Address 1708 Vine Street

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

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    Address 6700 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Frank Morgan
Born:
1890-06-01,
New York,
New York,
USA
Education:
Cornell University, NY
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1949-09-18
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Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz.

Born as Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City, the youngest of eleven children, to the wealthy family that distributed Angostura bitters, he attended Cornell University where he was tapped into the New York Alpha Chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and through that organization was a member, Irving Literary Society. He then followed his older brother Ralph Morgan into show business, first on the Broadway stage and then into motion pictures.

His first film was The Suspect in 1916. In 1917 he provided support to his friend John Barrymore in Raffles The Amateur Cracksman, an independent film produced in and about New York City. Morgan’s career expanded when talkies began, his most stereotypical role being that of a befuddled but good-hearted middle-aged man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934’s The Affairs of Cellini, where he played the cuckolded Duke of Florence and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942’s Tortilla Flat, where he played a simple Hispanic man.

Other movies of note include The Great Ziegfeld, The Shop Around the Corner, The Human Comedy, The Mortal Storm, The White Cliffs of Dover and his last movie, Key to the City, which was released after his death, in Beverly Hills, California.

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