Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan (December 6, 1880 – January 1, 1972) was a British-born American actress and singer whose career encompassed concert halls, vaudeville, the legitimate stage, radio, television, and film, best known as Eve Arden's nosy landlady Mrs. Davis on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks. Early life Jennie "Jane" Morgan was born in England to Welsh parents on December 6, 1880, and within a year crossed the Atlantic to be raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon her graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music, she began performing with the Boston Opera Company as a singer and violin player earning $25 per week. By 1900, she was living with her widowed father and a brother in Anaconda, Montana, where she became a frequent performer in amateur theater productions and community events. Her father, Roderick "Rod" Morgan, worked as a blacksmith in Anaconda while her older brother, Charles, supported his family as a machinist. Marriage On Sunday, February 17, 1901, she married Leo Cullen Bryant, a 23-year-old native of Albion, Wisconsin, who taught music and headed the Margaret Theater Orchestra in Anaconda. The following month, the Bryants opened a music school in Butte, Montana, teaching piano and violin.