Michele Morgan

Lovely blonde French actress.

Morgan, bizarrely, made her film debut in 1935 as the trainer of a white elephant in Mademoiselle Mozart, but her true debut came in the comedy Gribouille in 1937.

Following the German invasion of France in 1940 she left for the United States and Hollywood where she was contracted to RKO Pictures in 1941. Her career there proved rather disappointing, apart from Joan of Paris (1942) opposite Paul Henreid, and Higher and Higher (1943) opposite Frank Sinatra. She was tested and strongly considered for the female lead in Casablanca but RKO would not release her for the amount of money that Warner Bros. offered, so Ingrid Bergman got the job instead. Morgan did work for Warners, however, in Passage to Marseille (1944), opposite Humphrey Bogart

After the war, Morgan returned to France and quickly resumed her career with the film La Symphonie Pastorale (1946) directed by Jean Delannoy, which earned her the Best Actress award at the inaugural Cannes Film Festival.

This is a very pretty vintage 1940s black and white publicity photograph (8.5" x 7"), signed and inscribed in French ("A Bohemia, Cordialment, Michele Morgan") in blue fountain pen ink across a lighter area of the image. In very good condition. (Bohemia was a leading film magazine.)