Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known for her distinctive, powerful...

The Ethel Merman Disco Album is a 1979 album by American Broadway performer Ethel Merman. It was released on A&M Records. Over the years, the record became...

the production. It is reprised three times in the musical. In 1953, Ethel Merman sang the song before a live television audience of 60 million persons...

of Gypsy Rose Lee was a project of producer David Merrick and actress Ethel Merman. Merrick had read a chapter of Lee's memoirs in Harper's Magazine and...

Fields had the idea for a musical about Annie Oakley to star her friend Ethel Merman. Producer Mike Todd turned the project down, so Fields approached a new...

Palmer later divorced Siegel in 1928. He soon afterward got involved with Ethel Merman. Siegel was "her coach and accompanist." The complicated and difficult...

nervous at the prospect of taking on a role strongly identified with Ethel Merman, anxious about appearing in an unglamorous part after breaking from juvenile...

loosely based on The Marvelous Land of Oz. In the film, Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman) is the cousin of the late Wicked Witches of the East and West who tries...

captured by Mombi's pet crow (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman) herself. Pumpkinhead sneaks into the house in Mombi's absence, and discovers...

American musical film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles and Ida Lupino. It is based on the 1934 stage musical...

film directed by Walter Lang. It stars an ensemble cast, consisting of Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, and Mitzi...

Anything Goes, and then in the 1936 film version. Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by dozens of prominent performers, including Frank...

feature Ethel Merman ("Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing" and "Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show") were originally just one episode, "Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman...

the same name. The film, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, starred Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy DeWolfe, George Sanders, and Walter...

Treasure Girl (1928) and found another, faster setting in Girl Crazy. Ethel Merman sang the song in the original Broadway production and Broadway lore holds...

photography studio. Colby was married to Robert Levitt Jr., whose mother was Ethel Merman. On July 24, 1975, Colby and acting colleague James Kiernan were walking...

and propagandist Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American actress and singer Ethel Isabel Moody (1905–1941), American mathematician Ethel Moore (1872-1920)...

better than you." The song was first performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. During the song, they argue playfully about who can...

the character of Mrs. Sally Adams nor Miss Ethel Merman resemble any person living or dead." In 1949, Merman and her family were vacationing at the Hotel...

Introduced in the show's inaugural production by Ethel Merman, "Everything's Coming Up Roses" became one of Merman's signature songs. According to Sammy Cahn...

from his 1939 musical DuBarry Was a Lady where it was introduced by Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr. The song was once again performed in the 1943 film version...

McKinney (1912–1967) Butterfly McQueen (1911–1995) Una Merkel (1903–1986) Ethel Merman (1908–1984) Ann Miller (1923–2004) Carmen Miranda (1909–1955) Maria Montez...

starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman. Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play The Admirable Crichton, the film...

and William Sackheim). The supporting cast features Carl Reiner and Ethel Merman. Jewison noted in his autobiography that the film's flaw was that the...

"You're the Top" is a list song by Cole Porter, from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other...

audiences reacted to Merman in the role of Dolly Levi, and how this changed the show. "She wasn't Dolly up there, she was Ethel Merman in Dolly clothes....

principal cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas...

by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. A film version in 1950 again featured the song when it was performed by Howard Keel and Betty Hutton. Ethel Merman recorded...

with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers...

Legends of Ethel Merman ISBN 978-0-520-229-45-6 pp 251 ff Thompson, N. P. (January 15, 2008). "They Say She Was Wonderful: Ethel Merman at 100". Slant Magazine...