Brass diva: the life and legends of Ethel Merman/

Main Author: Flinn, Caryl
Format: Book
Published: Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, [c2007]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Rose
  • 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.