Birthday: January 16, 1908
Twenty-two-year-old ex-stenographer and former nightclub singer Ethel Merman achieved overnight superstardom when, in 1930, she first belted out "I Got Rhythm" in the Broadway production of +Girl Crazy. Merman's subsequent stage hits included +Anything Goes, +Red, Hot and Blue, +Panama Hattie, +Annie Get Your Gun, +Call Me Madam, and +Gypsy. While her Living Legend status ...more- 1953
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C
- Call Me Madam
- win
- 2005
- Broadway's Lost Treasures, Vol. 3
- Girl Crazy
- 1980
- Airplane!
- Lt. Hurwitz
- 1976
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood
- Hedda Parsons
- 1971
- Journey Back to Oz
- Mombi, the Bad Witch
- 1965
- The Art of Love
- Madame Coco
- 1930
- Her Future
- Director












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