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 Ethel Merman
Birthday: January 16, 1908
Birth
Place: Astoria, New York, USA
Height: 0' 0"
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Twenty-two-year-old ex-stenographer and former nightclub singer Ethel Merman achieved overnight superstardom when, in 1930, she first belted out "I Got Rhythm" in the Broadway production of Girl Crazy. Merman's subsequent stage hits included Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Panama Hattie, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, and Gypsy. While her Living Legend status was secure on the Great White Way, Merman was less fortunate in the movies. She was upstaged by Ed Wynn in Follow the Leader (1930), by Bing Crosby and Burns and Allen in We're Not Dressing (1934), by Eddie Cantor in Kid Millions (1934), and — most ignominiously — by the Ritz Brothers in Straight, Place and Show (1938). While she was permitted to repeat her stage roles in the movie versions Anything Goes (1936) and Call Me Madam (1954), she had to endure watching Betty Hutton wail her way through the film adaptations Red, Hot and Blue (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and withstand the spectacle of a miscast Rosalind Russell misplaying the part of Mama Rose in the 1963 filmization Gypsy. Perhaps Merman's talents were too big and bombastic for the comparatively intimate medium of films; or perhaps she just didn't photograph well enough to suit the Hollywood higher-ups. Merman's best movie work includes the two Irving Berlin catalogues Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and her character role as Milton Berle's behemoth mother-in-law in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Ethel Merman's final film appearance was a cameo in Airplane! (1980): she played the unfortunate Lieutenant Hurwitz, who is confined to the psycho ward because he thinks he's Ethel Merman.
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- Thrice-wed Merman married twice-wed Ernest Borgnine in 1964. Their marriage was dissolved after 32 days. They had announced their impending nuptials at the legendary New York night spot P.J. Clarke's, but Borgnine, who was riding high as the star of "McHale's Navy" (1962) at the time, said the marriage began unraveling on their honeymoon, when he received more fan attention than she did. The competitive Merman was left seething. "By the time we got home, it was hell on earth," Borgnine recalled in a 2001 interview. "And after 32 days I said to her, 'Madam, bye.'" Borgnine went on to marry a third time, but Merman remained single after her divorce. In her 1978 biography, she devoted a chapter of her autobiography to the marriage: It consisted of one blank page.
- She won a Tony for "Call Me Madam"
- Her daughter, Ethel Jr. died of an overdose of drugs and alcohol in 1967.
- Was at one time passionately involved with Jacqueline Susann. After their relationship ended in anger, Susann based the character of the lonely, pathetic, faded Broadway star Helen Lawson on Merman.
- One son, Bobby.
- Won Broadway's 1951 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Call Me Madam," and a scond, Special Tony, in 1972. She also had two other Tony nominations for Best Actress (Musical): in 1957, for "Happy Hunting," and in 1960, for "Gypsy."
- Of German-Scottish ancestry.
- Bertolt Brecht actually desired to have the raucous Ethel play the title role of his masterpiece "Mother Courage...and Her Children." She, of course, never did.
- She loved Christmas so much, that she kept her Christmas tree up year-round
- In 1979 she released her most controversial album-to-date. A disco LP simply titled "The Ethel Merman Disco Album." Despite it not even charting on the Billboard charts, and many people's skeptically on the the then 71-year-old veteran, it was a smash hit, being played in Studio54 regularly, with live appearances by Merman, herself. It also became a staple period album for the majority of the gay community.
- Devised her screen and stage name by removing the first three letters (Zim) and the last letter (n) from her birth name - Zimmermann
- Former mother-in-law of murdered Barbara Colby whose untimely funeral she attended
- Won a Tony for her role in the musical "Call Me Madam" (1951); Tony-nominated for musical "Happy Hunting" (1957); Tony-nominated for musical "Gypsy" (1960); Recipient of Tony Special Award (1972)
- Her final film role was in the Zucker film, Airplane! (1980). Coincidentally, John Houseman died soon after filming _The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)_ but before its theatrical release.
- Her third husband, Robert F. Six, was CEO of Continental Airlines.
- Played villainess "Lola Lasagne" on the campy TV series "Batman" (1966).
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