Tommy Morgan
This collection includes leaflets, a licence, several photographs, presscuttings, programmes and scripts.
Born in Bridgeton in 1898, Tommy, with his cherubic countenance and broad Glasgow accent, made something glorious out of his background. He was a huge star during the 1930s, 40s and 50s, starring in numerous pantomimes and summer shows across Scotland. His characters included the professional 'won't-work', declaring "They're very good to you at the Maryhill Buroo" and Big Beanie McBride, the G.I. Bride, who on being welcomed in New York with a huge basket of flowers, accepted philosophically the explanation "You're sellin' em!"
Morgan was in the traditional mould of the Scotch comic, in respect that he used the theatrical convention of the 'dame' character to illustrate the absurdities of life from a woman's viewpoint, seen through the eyes of a man in a frock. Although extremely ill at the time, Morgan appeared in the Scottish Royal Variety Performance in July 1958, he died four months later.
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