Ethel Merman: A LifePenguin, 01.11.2007 - 352 Seiten “Kellow’s chronology is dishy and seamless; he understands the dynamics of the theater world and makes you feel the exhilaration of an evolving hit and the frustrations inherent in working with a performer like Merman.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Kellow] has painted a vivid portrait of a Broadway diva who shone brighter and sang louder than anyone else.”—The Washington Post BookWorld More than twenty years after her death, Ethel Merman continues to set the standard for American musical theater. The stories about the supremely talented, famously strong-willed, fearsomely blunt, and terrifyingly exacting woman are stuff of legend. But who was Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, really? Brian Kellow’s definitive biography of the great Merman is superb, and the first account to examine both the artist and the woman with as much critical rigor as empathy. Through dozens of interviews with her colleagues, friends, and family members, Kellow (author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent) traces the arc of her life and her thirty-year singing career to reveal many surprising facts about Broadway’s biggest star. |
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... kind of big-voiced singer was needed to cut through the bolder arrangements. Ethel listened to these women on the radio. She listened, made note of the things she liked and the things she didn't, and she learned from them. The press had ...
... kind of big-voiced singer was needed to cut through the bolder arrangements. Ethel listened to these women on the radio. She listened, made note of the things she liked and the things she didn't, and she learned from them. The press had ...
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... kind of unwritten code of the time. She spent part of these “tips,” as she called them, on sprucing up her wardrobe, while the rest went home to Astoria, along with the part of her weekly salary that she had agreed to put into savings ...
... kind of unwritten code of the time. She spent part of these “tips,” as she called them, on sprucing up her wardrobe, while the rest went home to Astoria, along with the part of her weekly salary that she had agreed to put into savings ...
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... kind of part that Eve Arden would later make a career of in the movies. When Kate catches her husband, Slick, on the make, she berates him, “You promised me a divorce two years ago. And if you can ever make enough money for me to hire a ...
... kind of part that Eve Arden would later make a career of in the movies. When Kate catches her husband, Slick, on the make, she berates him, “You promised me a divorce two years ago. And if you can ever make enough money for me to hire a ...
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Inhalt
Chapter Five | |
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Eight | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Fifteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Seventeen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
Chapter Twenty | |
Chapter Twentyone | |
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Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Thirteen | |
Chapter Twentytwo | |
Acknowledgments | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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