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- There were few white performers in the Crystal Caverns nightclub in Washington in 1946, so Morgana King pretended she was Creole. “Are you sure you’re Creole?” they said. The 16-year-old was forced to admit she was Sicilian. “Well,” they said. “That’s good enough,” she recalled.
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Morgana King. Maria Grazia Morgana Messina (June 4, 1930 – March 22, 2018), better known as Morgana King, was an American jazz singer and actress. [1][2][3] She began a professional singing career at sixteen years old. In her twenties, she was singing at a Greenwich Village nightclub when she was recognized for her unique phrasing and vocal ...
Aug 16, 2018 · There were few white performers in the Crystal Caverns nightclub in Washington in 1946, so Morgana King pretended she was Creole. “Are you sure you’re Creole?” they said. The 16-year-old...
"I was sixteen and a half when I played here at the Crystal Caverns, billed as the 'Creole Songbird From the Ramparts Section of New Orleans.' It was a black club and in 1946 you didn't find too...
Mar 22, 2018 · In the first appearance of Leonard G. Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz (1960), Morgana King stated that her ambition was "… to become a dramatic actress." She began her acting career in The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, as Carmela Corleone, wife of Don Vito Corleone.
Read Morgana King's New York Times obituary here. An American actress and singer best known on the big screen for her role as Mama Corleone, King played the wife of Marlon Brando’s Don Vito in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part 2 (1974).
Aug 16, 2018 · Morgana King, a jazz singer with an unusual voice that seemed more in sync with classical than swing and who is perhaps best known as playing Marlon Brando's wife in the first two Godfather films, died earlier this year on March 22.
Aug 15, 2018 · The Godfather actress and jazz singer Morgana King has died aged 87. She played Carmela Corleone - the wife of Marlon Brando's Don Vito - in the first two Godfather films, alongside a...
