Ethel Merman: A Life (52 page)

Milestone, Lewis

Minnelli, Liza

Mister President

“Moanin’ Low,”

Monroe, Marilyn

Montgomery, John

Moore, Karen

Moore, Victor

Morehouse, Ward

Morgan, Helen

Morrow, Karen

Muppets, The

Murrow, Edward R.

Museum of the City of New York

“Mutual Admiration Society,”

Myers, Julian

“My Heart Belongs to Daddy,”

Nagrin, Danny

Natwick, Mildred

Neubert, Martha

New York Paramount

New York World’s Fair (1939)

“Night and Day,”

No, No, Nanette

Norton, Elliott

Nype, Russell

Oakley, Annie

O’Connell, Jack

O’Connor, Carroll and Nancy

O’Connor, Donald

O’Dwyer, Paul

Oenslager, Donald

Of Thee I Sing

O’Hara, Maureen

Oklahoma!

“Old-Fashioned Wedding, An,”

Olsen and Johnson

On the Town

Orbach, Jerry

“Ours,”

Out of This World

Palace Theatre

Pal Joey

Panama Hattie

Paramount Pictures

Parker, Fess

Parsons, Louella O.

Pavilion Royale, Long Island

Pender, Bob

Pène du Bois, Raoul

Perkins, Anthony

Perry, Dick

Person to Person
(TV)

Pickett, Claude

Pickman, Milton

Picon, Molly

Pied Piper Award, ASCAP

Pippin, Donald

Playten, Alice

Plaza Hotel, New York

Porter, Cole

Anything Goes

Du Barry Was a Lady

Kiss Me, Kate

Leave It to Me!

Out of This World

Panama Hattie

Red, Hot and Blue!

Something for the Boys

Porter, Linda Lee Thomas

Poston, Tom

Powell, Eleanor

Power, Tyrone

“Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, A,”

Prince, Harold

Raft, George

Randolph, Clemence

Ray, Johnnie

Raymond, Gene

Red, Hot and Blue!

Reiner, Carl

Revel, Harry

Rhythm at Eight
(radio)

Richman, Harry

“Ridin’ High,”

Riggs, Seth

“Rise and Shine,”

Ritchard, Cyril

Robbins, Jerome

Call Me Madam

Gypsy

Stars in Your Eyes

Robin, Leo

Robinson, Bill

Rockefeller, Winthrop

Rodgers, Richard

Rogers, Ginger

Romano, Jane

Roman Pools Casino, Miami

Romberg, Sigmund

Rome, Harold

Romero, Cesar

Roosevelt Hospital

Rose Marie

Rosenfield, John

“Rose’s Turn,”

Ross, Bill

Roth, Lillian

Russell, Rosalind

Russo, James

Sachs, Joseph

Saddler, Donald

Sadie Thompson

“Sam and Delilah,”

Sander, Alfred

Sanders, George

“Satan’s Holiday,” 20 “Say It with Music,”

Schear

Schenck, Joe

Schirmer, Gus

Schwab, Laurence

Schwartz, Arthur

Seeley, Blossom

Selwyn, Ruth

Sennett, Mack

Severinsen, Doc

Shalit, Gene

Sharaff, Irene

Sharkey, Agnes

Shearer, Norma

Sheekman, Arthur

Shor, Toots

Shore, Dinah

Short, Hassard

Shribman, Joseph

Shurr, Louis

“Side by Side,”

Siegel, Al

Siegel, Sol

Sills, Beverly

Silvers, Sid

Sinatra, Frank

“Singin’ in the Rain,”

“Sing You Sinners,”

Six, Robert

and Continental

divorce of

and
Happy Hunting

marriage of Ethel and

as stepfather

“Small World,”

Smith, Bessie

Smith, William

“Some People,”

Something for the Boys

as
Jenny Get Your Gun

“Something to Dance About,”

Sondheim, Stephen

Sosenko, Anna

Sothern, Ann

South Pacific

Spewack, Bella and Samuel

Spreckles, Geraldine

Stage Door Canteen

Stars in Your Eyes

as
Pins and Needles

Stewart, James

Stickney, Dorothy

Stork Club, New York

Straight, Place and Show
(film)

Streisand, Barbra

Strike Me Pink
(film)

Stritch, Elaine

Styne, Jule

Susann, Jacqueline

Take a Chance

as
Humpty Dumpty

Talva, Galina

Tamiris, Helen

Tarzan

Taurog, Norman

Terzian, Sherry

Texaco Star Theater
(TV)

Texas, Temple

Thalberg, Irving

“There’s No Business Like Show

Business,”

There’s No Business Like Show Business
(film)

“They All Laughed,”

“They Can’t Take That Away from Me,”

“They Like Ike,”

“They Say It’s Wonderful,”

“This Is All I Ask,”

This Is Your Life
(TV)

Thomas, Marlo

Thompson, Frank

Thompson, Kay

Todd, Mike

Tolson, Clyde

Tormé, Mel

Traeger, Josie

Treacher, Arthur

Treacher, Virginia

Truman, Harry S.

Tucker, Sophie

Turner, Lewis

20th Century Fox

Tynan, Kenneth

Ullman, Bob

United States Steel Hour
(TV)

Urban, Joseph

Vallee, Rudy

Valley of the Dolls
(Susann)

Van, Gus

Van Dyke, Dick

Varney, Carleton

“Varsity Drag,”

Venuta, Benay

in
Annie Get Your Gun

in
Anything Goes

in
By Jupiter

Ethel’s travels with

Vera-Ellen

Victor, Lucia

Vitaphone Company

Wallace, Marie

Wallace, Paul

Walsh, Mary Jane

Walt Disney World

Walters, Charles

Warner Bros.

Waters, Ethel

Watson, Susan

Watts, Richard Jr.

Waxman, A. P.

Weill, Kurt

Welch, Alice

Werblin, Sonny

We’re Not Dressing
(film)

Weslow, William

Wesson, Gene

West, Mae

“What I Did for Love,”

Wheaton, Anna

White, George

Whiting, Jack

Whiting, Margaret

Whiting, Richard

Whitney, Helene

Who Could Ask for Anything More?
(autobiography)

Wickes, Mary

Williams, Bert

Williams, Frances

Wills, Lou Jr.

Wilson, John S.

Wiman, Dwight Deere

Winchell, Walter

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of

Winters, Shelley

Wodehouse, P. G.

“World, Take Me Back,”

World War I

World War II

Wurtzel, Sol

Wyatt, Jane

Wynn, Ed

Yarnell, Bruce

“You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,”

Youmans, Vincent

“You’re an Old Smoothie,”

“You’re Just in Love,”

“You’re the Top,”

Your Hit Parade
(TV)

Zanuck, Darryl F.

Zeller, Mark

Ziegfeld Follies

Zimmermann, Agnes “Mom” and Edward “Pop”:

aging and deaths of

breaking away from

and Ethel’s birth and childhood

and Ethel’s career

Ethel’s home with

and Ethel’s marriages