Ethel Merman: A Life (50 page)

A&M Records

Aarons, Alex A.

Abbott, George

Abrahams, Jim

Actors’ Equity

Adams, Cindy

Adams, Edie

Adler, Polly

Airplane!
(film)

Alberghetti, Anna Maria

Alda, Frances

Alexander’s Ragtime Band
(film)

Allen, Betty

Allen, Gracie

Allen, Marty

Allers, Franz

“All I Need Is the Girl,”

Allyson, June

Alton, Robert

Ameche, Don

American Entertainment Enterprises

Anderson, Marian

“An Earful of Music,”

Annenberg, Walter

Annie Get Your Gun,

film version

revivals

Anything Goes
(film)

“Anything Goes” (song) Arden, Eve

Arlen, Harold

Armen, Kay

Art of Love, The
(film)

Astaire, Fred

Atkinson, Brooks

Attia, Albert

Bacall, Lauren

Bacharach, Burt

Baker, Edith

Ball, Lucille

Ballard, Kaye

Ballard, Lucinda

Bankhead, Tallulah

Barnes, Clive

Barrymore Colt, Ethel

Bartow, Arthur

Beaton, Cecil

Bellaver, Harry

Bennett, Helen

Bennett, Michael

Berle, Milton

Berlin, Irving

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Annie Get Your Gun

Call Me Madam

Louisiana Purchase

Mister President

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Berlinger, Warren

Bernard Geis Associates

Bernstein, Leonard

Big Broadcast of 1936, The
(film)

Big Show, The
(radio)

Billingsley, Sherman

Birnbaum, Alex

Black, Russ

Blackhurst, Klea

Blackton, Jay

Blair, Betsy

Blondell, Joan

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow,”

“Blue Skies,”

Bock, Jerry

“Body and Soul,”

Bolger, Ray

Bolton, Guy

Booth, Shirley

Borgnine, Ernest

Boston Pops Orchestra

“Boy! What Love Has Done to Me,”

Bradbury, Lane

Brady, Alice

Bragg, Caleb

Brand, Harry

Breen, Joseph I.

Bremer, Lucille

Brice, Fanny

Brisson, Frederick

Broadway musicals: amplification in

audience segregation in

changing tastes in

establishment of

golden age of

nostalgia in

promotion of

rock and roll on

serious money in

sophisticated

star vehicles

on tour

and unions

Brooklyn Paramount

Brooks, Phyllis

Brown, David

Brown, John Mason

Brown, Lew

Brown, Nacio Herb

Bruce, Betty

Bryan, Vincent

Burns, George

Burrows, Abe

“But Not for Me,”

Cahn, Sammy

Callas, Maria

Call Me Madam

film version

revivals

Call Me Mister

Canby, Vincent

Cantor, Eddie

Cantor, Marilyn

Carlisle, Kitty

Carnegie Hall

Carroll, Harry

Carroll, Joan

Carroll, Ronn

Carson, Johnny

Carter, Janice

Cattell, Bill

Central Park Casino

Champion, Gower

Champion, Marge

Channing, Carol

Chorus Line, A

Church, Sandra

Clayton, Lou

Clooney, Rosemary

Cointreau, Tony

Colby, Barbara

Colgate Comedy Hour, The
(TV)

Colton, John

Comden, Betty

Como, Perry

Cook, Carole

Coward, Noël

Crawford, Joan

Crosby, Bing

Crouse, Anna

Crouse, Russel

Anything Goes

Call M Madam

Happy Hunting

Red, Hot and Blue!

Crowther, Bosley

Cushing, Charles

Dabdoub, Jack

Dahl, Arlene

Dailey, Dan

Daily Word

Dallas State Fair

Daly, Tyne

David, Hal

“Dearie,”

Decca Records

DeMain, John

Denver Symphony Orchestra

DeSylva, Buddy

Du Barry Was a Lady

Panama Hattie

Dietrich, Marlene

Dietz, Howard

Diller, Phyllis

Disco Ethel

“Doin’ What Comes Naturally,”

Donahue, Jimmy

Donaldson, Walter

Dowling, Doris

Downing, Robert

“Down in the Depths,”

Draper, Dorothy

Du Barry Was a Lady

Dubey, Matt

Duke, Vernon

Dunn, James

Durante, Jimmy

Red, Hot and Blue!

Stars in Your Eyes

“Eadie Was a Lady,”

Earl Carroll Vanities

Eastham, Richard

Ebb, Fred

Edens, Roger

Edwards, Gus

Edwards, Ralph

Eells, George

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

“Embraceable You,”

Emmy Awards

Ephron, Henry and Phoebe

Ethel Merman on Broadway
(TV)

Ethel Merman Show, The
(radio)

Etting, Ruth

Evans, Dave

“Everything’s Coming Up Roses,”

Fabray, Nanette

Fain, Sammy

Famous Players-Lasky

“Fascinating Rhythm,”

Faye, Alice

Fiedler, Arthur

Fields, Dorothy

Annie Get Your Gun

death of

Fields, Herbert

Annie Get Your Gun

Fine, Sylvia (Kaye).
See
Kaye, Sylvia

Fine

Fisher, Eddie

Fisher, Irving

Fiske, Mrs. Minnie Maddern

Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas

Flynn, Errol

Follow the Leader
(film)

Ford TV special

Francis, Arlene

Frazier, Brenda

Freed, Arthur

Freedley, Vinton

Anything Goes

Red, Hot and Blue!

Freund, Anna

“Friendship,”

Friml, Rudolf

Funny Girl

Gardiner, Robert

Gardner, Mary

Garland, Judy

Garrett, Betty

Gaxton, Madeline

Gaxton, William

Gaynor, Janet

Gaynor, Mitzi

Geary, Barbara Jean

Geary, Michael

Geary, William

“Gee, But It’s Good to Be Here,”

George White’s Scandals

Gershwin, George

Gershwin, Ira

Gerstad, Merritt B.

Gibson, Virginia

Girl Crazy

“Girl That I Marry, The,”

Gish, Lillian

Goetz, Al

Goldie’s New York

Goldwyn, Samuel

Goodman, Dody

Gordon, Mack

Gordon, Ruth

Gottfried, Martin

Gould, Jack

Grable, Betty

Graham, Sheilah

Grant, Cary (Archibald Leach)

Grayson, Richard

Green, Adolph

Greenwood, Charlotte

Groninger, Homer

Gypsy

film version

revivals

Hagerty, Julie

Haines, Billy

Hair

Hale, Barbara

Haley, Jack

Hall, Bettina

Hammerstein, Oscar

Hammond, Percy

Happy Hunting