Joan Morgan (1 February 1905 – 22 July 2004) was an English

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, screenwriter and

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. Born in

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, she was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan and his wife, Evelyn. Joan Morgan died at age 99 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK in 2004. She became a leading British star of the 1920s, after appearing in a number of films directed by her father. Her acting career was effectively ended by the arrival of

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in 1929 and she switched to writing, working on a number of screenplays over the following decade. She also wrote for television. She wrote novels under her own name and through using the pen-names Iris North and Joan Wentworth Wood.

Filmography

Actress

* '' The Cup Final Mystery'' (1914) * '' The Great Spy Raid'' (1914) * '' Queenie of the Circus'' (1914) * '' The World's Desire'' (1915) * '' Iron Justice'' (1915) * '' The Woman Who Did'' (1915) * ''

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'' (1915) * '' The Reapers'' (1916) * '' Temptation's Hour'' (1916) * '' The Perils of Divorce'' (1916) *'' Her Greatest Performance'' (1916) * '' The Last Sentence'' (1917) * '' Drink'' (1917) * '' Because'' (1918) * '' The Scarlet Wooing'' (1920) * '' Two Little Wooden Shoes'' (1920) * '' The Children of Gibeon'' (1920) * '' Lady Noggs'' (1920) * ''

Little Dorrit ''Little Dorrit'' is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Cl ...

'' (1920) * '' A Lowland Cinderella'' (1921) * '' The Road to London'' (1921) * '' The Truants'' (1922) * '' The Lilac Sunbonnet'' (1922) * ''

Fires of Innocence ''Fires of Innocence'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Joan Morgan, Bobbie Andrews and Arthur Lennard. It was based on George Stevenson's novel ''A Little World Apart''. Cast * Joan Morgan as Helen ...

'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1922) * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1922) * ''

Dicky Monteith ''Dicky Monteith'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Stewart Rome, Joan Morgan and Jack Minister. Its plot involves a lawyer who tries to con a drunken client out of a large sum of money. It is an adapta ...

'' (1922) * '' Shadow of Egypt'' (1924) * ''

The Great Well ''The Great Well'' is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by Henry Kolker and starring Thurston Hall, Seena Owen and Lawford Davidson. It was based on the 1923 play '' The Great Well'' by Alfred Sutro. Cast * Thurston Hall - Peter Star ...

'' (1924) * '' The Woman Tempted'' (1926) * ''

A Window in Piccadilly ''A Window in Piccadilly'' is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Joan Morgan, John F. Hamilton and James Carew. It was made at Twickenham Studios as an independent production by Sidney Morgan.Wood p.64 Ca ...

'' (1928) * '' Three Men in a Cart'' (1929) * '' Her Reputation'' (1931)

Screenwriter

* '' Contraband Love'' (1931) * '' The Flag Lieutenant'' (1932) * '' The Callbox Mystery'' (1932) * ''

Chelsea Life ''Chelsea Life'' is a 1933 British drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Louis Hayward, Molly Johnson and Anna Lee. It was shot at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie for release by the British subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.Chibn ...

'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1934) * '' The Minstrel Boy'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1938) * '' Olympic Honeymoon'' (1940) * '' This Was a Woman'' (1948)

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