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Mama's talkin' loud: for decades, Ethel Merman was Broadway's ideal brassy-voiced tough girl. In 1959, she found the most challenging role of her career: the monstrous stage-mother Rose in Gypsy.
During the 1930s and '40s, a number of actresses were touted as the Queen of Hollywood, but Broadway's crown belonged indisputably to Ethel Merman. In 1930, she made her stage debut as the second female lead in George Gershwin's Girl Crazy, and for the next thirty years--the vintage years of the Broadway musical--she maintained a remarkable run, commanding the best material going, from Cole Porter to Irving Berlin to Jule Styne. Of her fourteen Broadway shows, only one, Stars in Your Eyes (1939), didn't quite make the grade, closing after a run of 127 performances. More characteristically, she played an entire season, or two--or three, as in the case of her biggest hit, ...
- Merman, the Sherman tank of Broadway.
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) January 4, 2004 700+ words
Byline: RODERICK GILCHRIST Call Me Merman King's Head Theatre, Islington (3...perhaps the four-day union of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine. They fell out of...and returned to Manhattan early where Merman, desperate to get out of the house...
- 'MERMAN': BRASSY, BOLD AND BIGGER THAN LIFE.(U)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 11, 2005 700+ words
...could hold a note longer than the Chase Manhattan Bank,'' says Rita McKenzie as Ethel Merman in the one-woman show ``Ethel Merman's Broadway.'' Merman had another talent that enchanted audiences of the '30s and '40s. She was loud. Really...
- MERMEN GO THEIR OWN WAY, SWIMMINGLY
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) LISA MARIE CROUCH, Staff Writer June 14, 1996 700+ words
...phone from Chicago, where The Mermen recently played. "I don...Martyn Jones on drums and The Mermen were born. Taking their name...Hendrix song, "1983 ... (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)," the Mermen have been on the receiving end...
- Mermaids and Mermen
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology January 1, 2001 700+ words
...with actual mermaids and mermen throughout history...storms." In 1187 a merman was caught off the coast...doomsday book tells of a merman caught off the island...of Ceylon caught seven mermen and mermaids, an incident...authenticated case of a merman seen near a rock off...
- Merman's bold style shined in her home
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Carleton Varney September 11, 1988 700+ words
Without a doubt the late Ethel Merman was queen of the Broadway stage. I was...accented by a lot of tartan plaid. Merman was a strong, glittery personality who...family room, you may want to use some of Merman's color schemes as a guide. Begin with...
- Ethel Merman
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Ethel Merman The lady that could hold a note as long as the Chase Manhattan Bank, singer Ethel Merman gives a V for Victory sign in a CBS radio studio. Merman, who got her start in vaudeville with Jimmy...
- MERMEN KEEP SURF-MUSIC ALIVE
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) May 31, 1996 700+ words
Photo The Mermen THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY...today's Man ... Or Astroman and the Mermen - and you'll be shocked at how fresh...to get in the way. San Francisco's Mermen are less funny than technical - 42-year...
- Disco wrecking ball: who recorded Ethel Merman with a disco beat? Could it be...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) White, Dave March 4, 2003 700+ words
The Ethel Merman Disco Album * Fynsworth Alley Why do we...boom of something like, well, The Ethel Merman Disco Album? Do we need that sort of...for the first time, 1979's The Ethel Merman Disco Album raises those questions and...
