Flinn, Caryl.

Brass diva the life and legends of Eth el Merman / [electronic resource] : Caryl Flinn. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xiv, 542 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-524), discography (p. 43 7-442), filmography (p. 463-471), and index. "Stage work": p. 443-461.

Beginnings -- From stenographer to star -- The early thirties -- To Hollywood and back again -- Broadway's brightest : the early forties -- Forging a family -- What comes natur'lly : Annie get your gun -- Call me madam -- A more complex image -- Madam in Hollywood -- Life with Six -- There's no business like show business -- From Mrs. Six to Mama Ros e -- Gypsy : Ethel Merman's musical fable -- It's a mad, mad schedule - - The sixties and the art of love -- After the big stem--the seventies -- Twilight and transformation -- Afterlife.


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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2010.
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Merman, Ethel.


Singers-- United States-- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses-- United States-- Biography.