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...Ethel Merman, bouncy, bugle-voiced musicomedienne, cast in the title role of Sadie Thompson, a musical version of Broadway's 1922 smash hit Rain, left the show three weeks before its Philadelphia opening because she did not like the lyrics, was replaced by bright and brassy Musicomedienne June Havoc...
Something for the Boys. Ethel Merman at her best in a musical that is better than most (TIME...
Vaudeville steppingstoned him into musicomedy where, after a couple of slow starts, he came up fast in Roberta, and the Ziegfeld Follies, was starred with Merman and Durante in Red, Hot and Blue. There after radio, and then the movies, made him rich...
...Polo Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...
...Goldwyn-Mayer) is the Hollywood version of Songwriter Cole Porter's tuneful Broadway dream about the Court of Louis XV. The Broadway dream was lively enough to wake anybody up. The Hollywood dream is all too easy to sleep through. Broadway offered the team of Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, with a good grade of gents'-room humor. Hollywood substitutes Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, with vulgarity from the lesser lavatories...