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Ethel Merman, George Eells
Merman: An Autobiography
Berkeley Publising Group
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George B. Bryan
Ethel Merman: A Bio-Bibliography
Greenwood Press
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Ethel Merman
Don't call me madam
W.H. Allen
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Geoffrey Mark
Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway
Barricade Legends / Barricade Books Inc.
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Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Walter Woolf King
Call Me Madam (1953)
DVD
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Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Ethel Merman
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
DVD
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All-star cast including Ethel Merman
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
DVD
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Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Ethel Merman
Airplane! (1980)
DVD
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Henry Ford II, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Fisher, Leland Hayward, Oscar Hammerstein II, Marian Anderson, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Wally Cox, Edward R. Murrow, Lowell Thomas
Mary Martin and Ethel Merman - Their Legendary Appearance on the Ford 50th Anniversary Show
Video Artists Int'l
DVD
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Ethel Merman
Ethel Zimmerman
Singer, Actress, Radio Hostess
(1908 - 1984)
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Ethel Merman was larger than life: she could sing louder, hold a note longer, and project her voice farther than anyone else. She was the epitome of Broadway. Born in Queens, New York, she brought her outspoken, down-to-earth personality along with her powerful pipes to the stage.
Her practical family sent her to secretarial school, so she worked as a stenographer by day and pursued a singing career at night. In 1930 she was offered her first Broadway role in Girl Crazy, and she stole the show from star Ginger Rogers with her show-stopping “I Got Rhythm.” After two stage shows and two films she returned to Broadway for a string of memorable starring roles: Anything Goes (1936), DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), Panama Hattie (1940), Something for the Boys (1943), and Annie Get Your Gun (1946), which ran for 1,147 performances and gave Merman her signature song, ”There’s No Business Like Show Business.” She followed that up with Call Me Madam (1950) and Gypsy (1959). In between stage shows she continued to star and appear in films including Call Me Madam (1953), There’s No Business Like Show Business (1953) and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Merman continued to perform on stage and TV late into her career and joined the cast of Hello Dolly! for a three-month run in 1970 which lasted for nine. She published her autobiography in1978 and parodied herself in the film Airplane! (1980). She was a trooper to the end.
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