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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 zimmermann really brian kellows 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 broadways biggest star . br
paperback penguin books 2008 isbn13 9780143114208 isbn10 0143114204
abridged n isbn 13 9780143114208 number in series 1 number of pages 326 publisher penguin group usa release date 62135769600000