Trivia

Her obituary in The Telegraph said, "Joan Morgan claimed to have been born in London on February 2 1905, though there is good reason to suspect the year was 1899." However, it appears that The Telegraph's suspicions were false. Her birth was registered in the Lewisham registration district (London, Greater London, and Kent) in the March quarter of 1905, vol. 1d, p. 1268.

Besides being a British silent screen star, script writer and novelist, her final career was converting old churches, toll houses and other buildings into housing.

As a young star was offered a career in Hollywood, but her father forbade it. This was something she never got over, even 80 years later before her death.

Daughter of director Sidney Morgan and actress Evelyn Morgan.

She had a knack for writing even as a child; when she submitted an essay to The Times newspaper, aged 8, it was rejected as they refused to believe it was written by someone under 10 years of age.

Her first screen role was to be in an adaptation of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'. She was cast by producer Charles Urban when she was 8 years old, but, after receiving notice of breach of copyright from the author Frances Hodgson Burnett the film was cancelled.