Ethel Merman: A Life
by Brian Kellow
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Author: Brian KellowEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: The Ultimate Merman Book
Summary: 5 Stars
There are several books about Ethel Merman -- two autobiographies (I love her but there's a lot of revision in Ethel's version of her life and times) and three biographies including Brian Kellow's Ethel Merman: A Life. Mr. Kellow's book is the best of the three non-autobiographical books on the market. In the two previous biographies, the late Ms. Merman is portrayed as a drunk and a monster who undercut any performer she saw as a threat. Brian Kellow's portrait of Ethel Merman is thorough and realistic -- warts and all -- about this icon of the 20th century musical theatre. It is the first book to look at Ethel Merman in the context of being a woman in a male dominated business during the first three-quarters of the 20th century. As anyone who reads Opera News knows, Brian Kellow is an excellent writer. Ethel Merman: A Life provides him the opportunity to write tellingly about the non-opera diva who dominated American Musical Theatre for a half-century.It is an excellent book and "must read" for anyone interested in the life and times of the great EM!
Summary of Ethel Merman: A Life
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 Z immermann, 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 traces the arc of her life and her thirty-year singing career to reveal many surprising facts about Broadway?s biggest star.Theater Books
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