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Author Flinn, Caryl.

Title Brass diva [electronic resource] : the life and legends of Ethel Merman / Caryl Flinn.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 542 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-524), discography (p. 437-442), filmography (p. 463-471), and index.
"Stage work": p. 443-461.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Merman, Ethel.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 0520229428 9780520229426 (DLC)2007029515
Standard No. 2027/heb08030 hdl

 
    
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