Merman, Ethel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...star, b. Astoria, N.Y., originally named Ethel Zimmerman. Mermans theater debut was in George and Ira Gershwin s Girl Crazy (1930). Noted for her brassy, booming voice, she appeared on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam (also the...