Brass Diva : the Life and Legends of Ethel Merman.

By:

Flinn, Caryl

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (591 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520927254
0520927257

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brass diva.DDC classification:

782.14092

LOC classification:

ML420.M39

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Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 Beginnings; 2 From Stenographer to Star; 3 The Early Thirties; 4 To Hollywood and Back Again; Photographs; 5 Broadway's Brightest: The Early Forties; 6 Forging a Family; 7 What Comes Natur'lly: Annie Get Your Gun; 8 Call Me Madam; 9 A More Complex Image; 10 Madam in Hollywood; 11 Life with Six; 12 There's No Business Like Show Business; 13 From Mrs. Six to Mama Rose; 14 Gypsy: Ethel Merman's Musical Fable; 15 It's a Mad, Mad Schedule; 16 The Sixties and the Art of Love; 17 After the Big Stemthe Seventies; 18 Twilight and Transformation; 19 Afterlife; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

A word on the scrapbooksdiscography; stage work; filmography; notes; index.

Summary: Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans. This biography tells the story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical.

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A word on the scrapbooksdiscography; stage work; filmography; notes; index.

Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans. This biography tells the story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical.