" Following the Broadway run, she agreed to join the show on the road, but shortly after the Chicago opening she claimed the chlorine in the city's water supply was irritating her throat, and Merman returned to Manhattan.

Merman returned to Broadway for another Porter musical, but despite the presence of Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope in the cast, Red, Hot and Blue closed after less than six months.

Merman returned to Broadway at the behest of her third husband, Continental Airlines executive Robert Six, who was upset she had chosen to become a Colorado housewife following their wedding in 1953.

Back in Hollywood, Merman was featured in Happy Landing, a minor comedy with Cesar Romero, Don Ameche, and Sonja Henie ; the box office hit Alexander's Ragtime Band, a pastiche of Irving Berlin songs interpolated into a plot that vaguely paralleled the composer's life ; and Straight, Place or Show, a critical and commercial flop starring the Ritz Brothers.

* Ethel Merman ( 1908 – 1984 ), star of musical comedies on Broadway and in Hollywood, was born in Astoria and graduated from Bryant.

He went to Hollywood in 1932 along with his protege Ethel Merman, writing and arranging her material for her films at Paramount.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

During the run of Girl Crazy, Paramount signed Merman to appear in a series of ten short musical films, most of which allowed her to sing a rousing number as well as a ballad.

" Although Merman always had remained with a show until the end of its run, she left Anything Goes after eight months to appear with Eddie Cantor in the film Strike Me Pink.

* Ethel Merman would also occasionally appear singing hit songs from the shows that she starred in, including Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, Happy Hunting, Panama Hattie, and Anything Goes.

It opened on November 21, 1934 at the Alvin Theatre, and the New York Post called Merman " vivacious and ingratiating in her comedy moments, and the embodiment of poise and technical adroitness " when singing " as only she knows how to do.

She appeared on stage in the early 1930s and was a chorus member in the original 1934 Broadway production of Anything Goes with Ethel Merman.

In 1930, the legendary Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in Girl Crazy ; in 1934, she appeared again in Cole Porter's Anything Goes and again in 1936 in Porter's Red, Hot and Blue.

In 1962, the " Big W " scenes from the ensemble comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers and others were filmed on the grounds of a private estate locally known as " Portuguese Point " near Abalone Cove shoreline park.

As the work progressed, Merman conceded she would be willing to sing two or three songs, but eventually accepted the fact she was going to star in a full-scale musical comedy instead of the drama she preferred.

Once the script was completed, everyone agreed that, while it was little more than standard situation comedy material, it was a perfect vehicle for Merman, and that Berlin's score, although far from his best, was tuneful and memorable.

Life Magazine praised the performers, especially Betty Grable " who can dance and sing like a May breeze " and Merman and Lahr " two musical comedy veterans ... in top form.

Gypsy was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee and starred Merman as her domineering stage mother Rose Hovick, posssibly Merman's best remembered performance.

* Matthew Arnold's poem " The Forsaken Merman " is based on the story of a merman marrying a human.

Helen Lawson, the aging stage actress who befriends and uses Anne, is based closely on Ethel Merman, whom Susann had known personally and reportedly had been sexually involved with.

He plays " Stan the Merman " in the 2008 feature Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild, and as one of the people on the telephone tree in Gus Van Sant's Milk, based on Harvey Milk.

Sondheim would have liked to write the music as well, but Ethel Merman, the star, insisted on a composer with a track record.

* May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway and runs for 702 performances

* Together on Broadway: Mary Martin & Ethel Merman ( 1977 ) ( Broadway )

In another 1001 Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, the musical play widely considered to have made stars of both her and Ethel Merman.

In another Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land.

While performing on the prestigious Keith Circuit, Merman was signed to replace Ruth Etting in the Paramount film Follow the Leader ( 1930 ), starring Ed Wynn and Ginger Rogers.

Merman initially was overlooked for the 1936 screen adaptation of Anything Goes when Bing Crosby insisted his wife Dixie Lee be cast as Reno Sweeney opposite his Billy Crocker, but when she unexpectedly dropped out of the project Merman was given the opportunity to reprise the role she had originated on stage.

The film was completed $ 201, 000 over budget and seventeen days behind schedule, and Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune described it as " dull and commonplace ," with Merman doing " as well as possible " but unable to register " on the screen as magnificently as she does on the stage.

Merman and Berlin reunited for Call Me Madam in 1950, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and she went on to star in the 1953 screen adaptation as well, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

Based on the Merman name, the show opened in New York with an advance sale of $ 1. 5 million and, despite the star's dissatisfaction with it, garnered respectable reviews.

Although Brooks Atkinson thought the score was " hardly more than adequate ", he called Merman " as brassy as ever, glowing like a neon light whenever she steps on the stage.

Following the Broadway closing of Gypsy on March 25, 1961, Merman half-heartedly embarked on the national tour.

Over the next several years, Merman was featured in two films, the successful It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ) and the flop The Art of Love ( 1965 ), and made dozens of television appearances, guesting on variety series hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and Carol Burnett, on talk shows with Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and Merv Griffin, and in episodes of That Girl, The Lucy Show, Batman, and Tarzan, among others.

", " Spanish Castle Magic " and " Crosstown Traffic "; glockenspiel on " Little Wing "; flute on " If 6 Was 9 "; harpsichord on " Bold as Love " and " Burning of the Midnight Lamp "; mellotron on " Burning of the Midnight Lamp "; and percussion on " 1983 ... ( A Merman I Should Turn to Be )".

Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Garrick performed along with some of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O ' Connor, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

* 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer ( d. 1984 )

The singer Ethel Merman, who was a friend of Hoover's since 1938, said in a 1978 interview: " Some of my best friends are homosexual.

* February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress ( b. 1908 )

** Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City.

Many episodes featured people most British viewers had barely heard of at the time, such as Linda Ronstadt ; some featured veteran performers like Ethel Merman and Rita Moreno ; some featured well-known pop singers, including Elton John, Diana Ross, and Leo Sayer.

* Muppet Treasures-Hosted by Kermit and Fozzie as they once again clean out the attic, with guest stars Zero Mostel, Loretta Lynn, Paul Simon, Peter Sellers, and Ethel Merman.

They are often compared to other Merman / Mermaid like beings, such as Merrows, Selkies, and Sirens.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Ethel Merman ( January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984 ) was an American actress and singer.

" Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are " I Got Rhythm ", " Everything's Coming Up Roses ", " Some People ", " Rose's Turn ", " I Get a Kick Out of You ", " It's De-Lovely ", " Friendship ", " You're the Top ", " Anything Goes ", and " There's No Business Like Show Business ", which later became her theme song.

Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann in her maternal grandmother's house located at 265 4th Street in Astoria, Queens, in New York City in 1908, though she would later emphatically declare that it was actually 1912.

Zimmermann had been raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and his wife was Presbyterian, but shortly after they were wed they joined the Episcopalian congregation at Church of the Redeemer, where Merman was baptized.

Merman attended P. S.

On Friday nights the Zimmermann family would take the subway into Manhattan to see the vaudeville show at the Palace Theatre, where Merman discovered Blossom Seeley, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, and Nora Bayes.

After graduating from Bryant in 1924, Merman was hired as a stenographer by the Boyce-Ite Company.

One day during her lunch break, she met Vic Kliesrath, who offered her a job at the Bragg-Kliesrath Corporation for a $ 5 increase above the weekly $ 23 salary she was earning, and Merman accepted the offer.