Ethel Merman on the Mike Douglas Show Part 1

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Uploaded by on Jul 14, 2007

Here is Ethel chatting about her career with Mike Douglas and Tony Randall.

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  • Tony Randall is SO sycophantic, pompous and snobbish in this. He talks with disdain about any talents with drug problems - does he realise that most of them didn't get the help they needed because of the times? If Judy Garland was listening, she'd wallop him.

  • An Ethel Merman sandwich! Yummy.

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  • @AdArmand Right. The closest thing to help Judy Garland had was her stay at an outpatient treatment center in Boston for 3 weeks in 1968, which was the most up-to-date treatment available then. And before her death, she was consulting with a doctor about her sleeping pill dosage. He got her down to 2 per night. People did the best they could.

  • Ethel was a closet lesbian. I think that was probably the major factor in her four marriages not succeeding. The first marriage, in which she had children, was probably for publicity purposes. It was the same story with Helen Hayes.

  • Ask Betty Hutton about Merman's "professionalism." What a joke.

  • To all the ignorant jerk people who wonder why she had certain behavior problem. She had a brain tumor which took her wonderful life away from us. Generation Y people could learn very much from people like her.

  • love the line about Klugman's singing: "Rose I love you, don't count your chickens." I thought the same when I first heard that recording 30 years ago. Jack 's one of our great dramatic actors, but even he would admit never was a singer. He does an admirable job for a non-singer but you know he had to be terrified to be out of his comfort zone having to perform in a musical alongside someone the stature of Merman singing heavyweights Styne and Sondheim material. He gets an "E" for effort.

  • Wow a virtual unknown on Broadway, gets a private concert listening to that woman sing her Broadway hits. It could have lasted two hours. That is an occasion to remember til you die.

  • She doesn't mention how she tried to sink Betty Hutton's career. Or how she delighted in berating Roz Russell's vocal ability for the movie version of "Gypsy."

  • @AdArmand  chill his only having fun

  • She is a very lovely person............

  • WHY IS THE AUDIO SO LOW

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