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28. Okt. 2021 · Ethel Merman. Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum, Colorado Springs. It would be difficult indeed to find a performer with as storied and colorful a history as Ethel Merman. Born in Queens, New York, Merman’s career as an actress and singer is like a mini-biography of Hollywood itself. Born to belt out showtunes galore, Merman’s career spanned ...
Ajouté : 13 déc. 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 18863. Source la citation. Entertainer. As an actress and singer, she is best remembered for her powerful, belting mezzo-soprano voice, precise enunciation and pitch in musicals, and has been called the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage. Because stage singers performed without ...
In 1943 she was a featured performer in the film “Stage Door Canteen” and opened in another Porter musical, “Something for the Boys” (1943). Her next project was “Sadie Thompson,” a musical adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham short story, but she was unable to retain the lyrics and resigned twelve days after rehearsals began.
In 1979, she recorded "The Ethel Merman Disco Album," with many of her signature show-stoppers set to a disco beat. Her last screen role was a self-parody in the 1980 comedy film "Airplane!," in which she portrayed 'Lieutenant Hurwitz', a shell shocked soldier who thinks he is Ethel Merman. She appeared in multiple episodes of ABC television's "The Love Boat" (playing Gopher's mother ...
Just prior to opening night, by orders of star Ethel Merman, Hutton's big musical number was cut. Betty was upset, but continued her run after the show's producer Buddy DeSylva promised to hire her for his Paramount film musical, "The Fleet's In" (1942).
Merman, Ethel (1912–1984)American entertainer, a fixture in Broadway musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, who starred in the original productions of Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, and Gypsy. Born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman on January 16, 1912, in New York City; died in New York on February 15, 1984; daughter of Edward Zimmerman (an accountant) and Agnes Zimmerman; mar Source for information on ...
Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum. Underhålls av: Find a Grave. Tillagd: 13 dec. 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 18863. Källa citat. Entertainer. As an actress and singer, she is best remembered for her powerful, belting mezzo-soprano voice, precise enunciation and pitch in musicals, and has been called the undisputed First Lady of the musical ...
