Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman by Caryl Flinn
Author:Caryl Flinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-04T12:44:00+00:00
For years, Hollywood has seemed unable to make effective use of Ethel Merman.... She has appeared in a number of second-rate movies (the best: the 1936 Eddie Cantor musical Strike Me Pink,- one of the worst: the 1936 movie version of her own Broadway hit Anything Goes). But the moviemakers, fearing that the rowdy Merman personality was too strong for the screen, usually tried to tone it down. When she arrived at the studio to begin CallMe Madam, she finally had a film tailored to her dimensions.... [And] she was told to be herself.69
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