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Brass Diva : The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

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 Queen...

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Autor principal: Flinn, Caryl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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