He was 33 years old. Helen Morgan was arrested and spent a short time in prison before being released on parole. After her release, she returned to her native North Carolina and died there from a heart condition in March 1996. Lee and Helen Morgan are the subjects of a 2016 documentary "I Called Him Morgan" by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin. The film premiered on September 1, 2016, at the 73rd Venice Film Festival and was theatrically released in the U.S. on March 24, 2017. In his "New York Times" review A. O. Scott called the film "a delicate human drama about love, ambition and the glories of music".