Word: merman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical (TIME, March...
...Ethel Merman is again Ambassador Sally Adams: brassy, breezy and profane. She intimidates the Irving Berlin songs with her raucous voice, getting out every beat of rhythm and a good deal of the tune. With her immense mouth and her bright, frank eyes--for twenty years symbols of Broadway--she gives the film the excitement of authentic musical-comedy...
...Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
...packed houses at Wonderful Town are as entranced by Rosalind's creaky dancing as by her croaking voice. Any one of the 13 chorus girls can dance better than she does. But, like such great performers as Ethel Merman and. Bea Lillie, Rosalind Russell represents the triumph of personality over technique: she communicates to her audience all the rewarding warmth and humor of shared experience...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...