Brass Diva : the Life and Legends of Ethel Merman.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flinn, Caryl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Merman, Ethel.
Singers > United States > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Chanteurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Musicals.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Musicals, Film & TV.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Broadway & Musical Revue.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Singers.
United States.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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