TY - GEN AU - Flinn,Caryl TI - Brass diva: the life and legends of Ethel Merman PY - 2007/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Merman, Ethel. KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Singers KW - Motion picture actors and actresses N1 - "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint."; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-524), discography (p. 437-442), filmography (p. 463-471), and index; "Stage work": p. 443-461; 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08030 ER -