Ethel Merman

Author : Brian Kellow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202580
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethel Merman written by Brian Kellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kellow’s chronology is dishy and seamless; he understands the dynamics of the theater world and makes you feel the exhilaration of an evolving hit and the frustrations inherent in working with a performer like Merman.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Kellow] has painted a vivid portrait of a Broadway diva who shone brighter and sang louder than anyone else.”—The Washington Post BookWorld More than twenty years after her death, Ethel Merman continues to set the standard for American musical theater. The stories about the supremely talented, famously strong-willed, fearsomely blunt, and terrifyingly exacting woman are stuff of legend. But who was Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, really? Brian Kellow’s definitive biography of the great Merman is superb, and the first account to examine both the artist and the woman with as much critical rigor as empathy. Through dozens of interviews with her colleagues, friends, and family members, Kellow (author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent) traces the arc of her life and her thirty-year singing career to reveal many surprising facts about Broadway’s biggest star.

Author : Ethel Merman
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merman written by Ethel Merman and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Broadway's greatest age! She was Broadway's greatest star! Here is the glittering, glamorous story. of the golden age of the Broadway musical, told in a fearless, fascinating memoir by the incomparable First Lady of American show business. In a brilliant era that will never be equalled, Ethel Merman sang. the great songs, knew the great personalities, played the great shows.

Author : Geoffrey Mark
Publisher : Barricade Legends
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethel Merman written by Geoffrey Mark and published by Barricade Legends. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three decades Ethel Merman virtually guranteed Broadway success. This in-depth portrait details her career, marriages, affairs, and her children. It includes a complete glossary of all of Merman's appearances.

Author : Caryl Flinn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520260228
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brass Diva written by Caryl Flinn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive biography of the life and career of American star of stage and film musicals, Ethel Merman, that chronicles her childhood, family, early film appearances, and success in the entertainment industry.

Author : Brian Kellow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018291
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethel Merman written by Brian Kellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative portrait of the iconic Broadway star traces her Queens childhood through her sensational three-decade career, offering insight into her larger-than-life personality, her relationships with fellow celebrities, and her secret struggles with loneliness and vulnerability. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Tony Cointreau
Publisher : Prospecta Press
ISBN 13 : 9781632260659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethel Merman, Mother Teresa... and Me written by Tony Cointreau and published by Prospecta Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many people can count among their closest friends Ethel Merman (the Queen of Broadway), Mother Teresa (beatified by the Vatican in October, 2003), Lee Lehman, (wife of Robert Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers), Pierre Cardin (legendary couturier and major show-business force in Europe), and many others? Well, Tony Cointreau, an heir of the French liqueur family, can. After a successful international singing career, and several years on the Cointreau board of directors, he felt a need for something more meaningful in his life. His voice had taken him to the stage, and his heart took him to Calcutta. Tony s childhood experiences with an emotionally remote mother, an angry bullying brother, a cold and unprotective Swiss nurse, and a sexually predatory schoolteacher left him convinced that the only way to be loved is to be perfect. This led him on a lifelong quest for unconditional love and for a mother figure.' His first other mother was the internationally acclaimed beauty Lee Lehman. Then, after Tony met the iconic Broadway diva Ethel Merman, she became his mentor and second other mother. This memoir describes in detail Tony's intimate family relationships with both women, as well as his years of work and friendship with Mother Teresa, his last other mother. ? Tony Cointreau s memoir voices his opinion that he had no special gifts or talents to bring to Mother Teresa s work and that if he could do it, then anyone could do it. In the end, all that really matters is a willingness to share even a small part of oneself with others."

Author : Stacy Ellen Wolf
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067725
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Problem Like Maria written by Stacy Ellen Wolf and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand

Author : Jule Styne
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360869
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gypsy written by Jule Styne and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous burlesque stripper. The musical focuses on her overbearing mother, Rose, the quintessential stage mother, as she pushes Gypsy (then known as Louise) and her sister June into life on the vaudeville circuit, forever trying to break into the big time. The musical contains many songs that have become popular standards, including 'Everything's Coming up Roses' and 'Let Me Entertain You'. Gypsy was premiered on Broadway in May 1959 at The Broadway Theatre (transferring to the Imperial Theatre), directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with Ethel Merman starring as Rose.

Author : Alexandra Jacobs
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374714657
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Here written by Alexandra Jacobs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New Yorker's favorite nonfiction book of 2019 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named one of Vogue's "17 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Fall" "Compulsively readable . . . ravenously consuming . . . manna from heaven . . . If ever someone knew how to put a genuinely irresistible book together, it's Jacobs in Still Here." —Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch’s life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway’s great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influential—and often fraught—collaborations she developed with Noël Coward, Tennessee Williams, and above all Stephen Sondheim, as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Award–winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers. In Still Here, Alexandra Jacobs conveys the full force of Stritch’s sardonic wit and brassy charm while acknowledging her many dark complexities. Following years of meticulous research and interviews, this is a portrait of a powerful, vulnerable, honest, and humorous figure who continues to reverberate in the public consciousness.

Author : Mandy Gonzalez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 153446896X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fearless written by Mandy Gonzalez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While rehearsing what may be the last show in the Ethel Merman Theater, twelve-year-old Monica Garcia and other cast members are locked in and must try to appease a ghost and reverse a curse.