Background
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.
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.
Morgan retired after the nine-year run of Our Mission Brooks on radio, television, and film came to an end in 1956. She died in North Hollywood, California on January 1, 1972 after a lengthy battle with heart disease. Morgan was buried at sea in compliance with her last wishes.
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 the 1910s and probably earlier Morgan was touring in dramas and musical comedies such as The Master Mind (1914, with Carl Rickert), The Silent Voice (1914, with Otis Skinner), Her Temporary Husband (1926), She Couldn"t Say Number (1930, with Charlotte Greenwood), and Tattle Tales (1933, with Barbara Stanwyck). In 1930 she began working on radio plays and series.
Jane Morgan became a stock performer on the Lux Radio Theater and was remembered for her work as part of the cast of Point Sublime, and on such radio plays as House Undivided as Mother Adams, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1941, with Keenan Wynn) and The Horn Blows at Midnight (1949, with Jack Benny). She made regular appearances on the Jack Benny and Bob Hope radio shows, but it was as "Mistress
Davis", Eve Arden"s scheming landlady on the radio and television versions of Our Mission Brooks, for which she was best-known.