His voice had taken him to the stage, and his heart took him to Calcutta. After a successful international singing career, and several years on the Cointreau board of directors, he felt a need for something more meaningful in his life. Through dozens of interviews with her colleagues, friends, and family members, Kellow (author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent) traces the arc of her life and her thirty-year singing career to reveal many surprising facts about Broadway’s biggest star.ĭetail Book: How many people can count among their closest friends Ethel Merman (the Queen of Broadway), Mother Teresa (beatified by the Vatican in October, 2003), Lee Lehman, (wife of Robert Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers), Pierre Cardin (legendary couturier and major show-business force in Europe), and many others? Well, Tony Cointreau, a scion of the French liqueur family, can.
But who was Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, really? Brian Kellow’s definitive biography of the great Merman is superb, and the first account to examine both the artist and the woman with as much critical rigor as empathy. The stories about the supremely talented, famously strong-willed, fearsomely blunt, and terrifyingly exacting woman are stuff of legend. Detail Book: “Kellow’s chronology is dishy and seamless he understands the dynamics of the theater world and makes you feel the exhilaration of an evolving hit and the frustrations inherent in working with a performer like Merman.”-The New York Times Book Review “ has painted a vivid portrait of a Broadway diva who shone brighter and sang louder than anyone else.”-The Washington Post BookWorld More than twenty years after her death, Ethel Merman continues to set the standard for American musical theater.
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