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A Hollywood star from Northwoods | WXPR
Many talented people have lived in the Northwoods, and every now and then one of them gains national fame. One of those people was Stanley Morner from the town of Prentice in Price County. Although few people recognize his name today, in the 1940s under the stage name Dennis Morgan, Stanley Morner was considered an A-List star and one of Hollywood’s most important men.
Stanley Morner was born in December 1908 in Prentice. His father was employed by the Roddis Lumber Company, and when Stanley was old enough he learned the lumber business from the bottom up. His father made him saw trees and blow stumps. He loved to fish, fought frequently and earned the nickname Toughy.
Morner was more than a tough kid fighting in the lumber yard. He had a natural singing voice, and his parents made sure he took piano and singing lessons with Ms. Nellie Kelley at Prentice. He attended elementary school at Prentice and three years at Prentice High before his parents moved to Marshfield. Morner finished his final year of high school at Marshfield, where he met his future wife, Lillian Vedder. He continued his music education at Marshfield and won the State High School Singing Competition in his senior year.
Morner attended Carroll College in Waukesha and graduated in 1930. He worked for a time at WTMJ radio in Milwaukee while studying at the Wisconsin Music Conservatory, but in 1933 the couple moved to Chicago. Nineteen thirty-three was the year of the World’s Fair in Chicago, and Morner had an engagement song at the Palmer House. He also appeared on stage under the direction of Thornton Wilder in Handel’s opera Xerxes. Her singing caught the attention of opera star Mary Garden, who then introduced Morner to Hollywood executives.
Morner signed with MGM Studios under his own name and from 1936 played small parts in a series of films. In 1938 he signed with Paramount as Richard Stanley and in 1939 moved to Warner Brothers, this time as Dennis Morgan. Morners’ roles remained modest until 1940 when he was loaned to RKO Studios to star with Ginger Rogers in the movie Kitty Foyle. The film won Rogers an Oscar and made Dennis Morgan a star.
As Dennis Morgan, Morner has been considered a prominent man alongside some of the most famous actresses of the 1940s, including Bette Davis, Olivia de Haviland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and Doris Day. He became one of the top ten salaried artists in Hollywood.
Despite his fame, he never forgot his Northwood roots and returned frequently to visit friends and family. However, a particularly memorable comeback came in 1951. In October, Morner, accompanied by Western screenwriter Adele Buffington, traveled to Rhinelander for a special luncheon for Movietime USA, hosted by renowned Rhenish politicians, information and theater. Morner was at the height of his fame, so hundreds of fans gathered outside the Old Fenlon Hotel to ask for his autograph.
What made this trip memorable for Morner was that he reunited with Nellie Kelley, his music teacher from Prentice. She reminded the crowd that Toughy Morner used to have frequent fights and wore panties to his lessons. The two played the piano together, after which Morner and Buffington were given keys to the city.
As actor Dennis Morgan, Morner retired in 1956, although he continued to appear in small roles in film and television until 1980. He died in 1994.
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