Ethel MermanFilmography

Judy Garland: Judy Duets

Actors: Judy Garland

Synopsis: Judy Garland: Duets collects several television appearances by the singer in which she performs with fellow celebrities. The release includes collaborations with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Darin, and Lena Horne. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Sinatra: The Classic Duets

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: Sinatra: The Classic Duets features the beloved crooner singing with a variety of other famous performers including Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, and Ethel Merman, as well as his daughter Nancy Sinatra. Also featured are numbers with his old Rat Pack buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Among Read More

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Legends

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Funny Fifties

Muppet Treasures

Synopsis: Kermit and Fozzie find treasure in the lost episodes that include cooking lessons with a Swedish Chef and episodes from "Pigs in Space" and "Veterinarian's Hospital." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

That's Singing: The Best of Broadway

Synopsis: This performance video is a tribute to the American musical theatre. Includes a collection of memorable songs from various Broadway shows. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July

Synopsis: Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July is an animated feature where Santa Claus must rescue Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman from a cruel wizard who has stranded the beloved characters on a sunny seashore. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Airplane!

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Journey Back to Oz

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this animated follow-up to the classic fantasy The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy (voiced by Liza Minnelli, whose mother Judy Garland played the same role in the 1939 film) decides to return to the land of Oz to pay a visit to her good friend The Scarecrow (voice of Mickey Rooney). However, shortly Read More

Hollywood Palace Finale

The Art of Love

Actors: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: Two bohemians come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that goes awray in this comedy scripted by Carl Reiner. Paul (Dick Van Dyke and Casey (James Garner) are two American expatriates living in Paris; Paul is an artist and Casey a writer. Both have been trying to make a career, but with little Read More

Cole Porter: An All-Star Tribute

Synopsis: Containing some famous singers and musicians performing the compositions of one of America's great songwriters, Cole Porter: An All-Star Tribute aired originally on television in January of 1964. Among the celebrities who perform are Ethel Merman, Gretchen Wyler, Peter Nero, and John Raitt. Read More

The Lucy Show: Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show

Actors: Ethel Merman, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Broadway legend Ethel Merman has agreed to perform in the Boy Scout variety show. Eagerly looking forward to sharing the stage with La Merman, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) are crestfallen when their Boy Scout sons arrange for the two ladies to Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing

Actors: Ethel Merman, Gale Gordon, Keith Thibodeaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Broadway legend Ethel Merman opens an account at the Danfield bank. Realizing what a pest the starstruck Lucy (Lucille Ball) can be, banker Mooney (Gale Gordon conspires with Merman to throw our redheaded heroine off the track. Thus, when Lucy spots the Read More

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

Judy Garland: Judy Garland & Friends

Synopsis: In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the legendary singer and actress performs a number of songs, several of them collaborations with up-and-comer Barbra Streisand, grand dame Ethel Merman, and Garland's own daughter Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Ethel Merman

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features the television guest appearance of famed Read More

Colgate Comedy Hour: February 28, 1954

Synopsis: Cole Porter is the focus for this episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, featuring Frank Sinatra and Ethel Merman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

There's No Business Like Show Business

Actors: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray

Synopsis: Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman Read More

Mary Martin and Ethel Merman: Their Legendary Appearance on the Ford 50th Anniversary Show

Synopsis: This 1953 television special was produced in celebration of the 50th birthday of Ford Motor Corporation and brought together two dissimilar vocalists, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman in one rare performance together. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Call Me Madam

Actors: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Ethel Merman reprised her role as a socialite turned diplomat in this screen adaptation of Irving Berlin's hit Broadway musical. Sally Adams (Merman) has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed United States Read More

The Colgate Comedy Hour [TV Series]

Texaco Star Theater [TV Series]

Actors: Milton Berle

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley

Synopsis: His Aunt Sophie (Helen Westley) and his teacher Professor Heinrich (Jean Hersholt) are sure that Roger Grant (Tyrone Power) will be a famous classical violinist, but Roger's more interested in popular music. He and his friend, pianist Charlie (Don Ameche), audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Read More

Straight, Place and Show

Actors: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come up with the $1,000 needed to enter him in the big race. The two get involved with the race anyway when they overhear a group of Russian jockeys conspiring to ruin the race. Read More

Happy Landing

Actors: Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: Happy Landing was another Sonja Henie moneyspinner from the 20th Century-Fox film factory. The story gets under way when skirt-chasing bandleader Duke Sargent (Cesar Romero) pitches woo to Trudy Ericksen (Sonja Henie) while on a tour of Norway. To Duke, it's just another harmless flirtation, but Read More

Anything Goes

Actors: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional songs by Hoagy Carmichael, among many many others. Set on a luxury liner, the story gets under way when Moonface Mullins (Charlie Ruggles), Public Enemy No. 13, slips on Read More

Strike Me Pink

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, William Frawley, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works as a tailor and has a terrible crush on Joyce (Ethel Merman), a nightclub singer. Eddie buys a book (through the mail, of course) called Man or Mouse: What Are You?. Taking Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Actors: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936. The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud (Jack Oakie), who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley (Henry Wadsworth) Read More

Kid Millions

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Stanley Fields, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, Doris Davenport, George Murphy, Otto Hoffman, Eve Sully, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother), inherits $77 million from his uncle, an Egyptologist. Con artist Dot (Ethel Merman) wants to get her lunchhooks on the money, and to this end offers Read More

We're Not Dressing

Actors: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier ending, as befitting its jaunty star Bing Crosby. Der Bingle is cast as Stephen Jones, a lowly crew member on yacht owned by wealthy Doris Worthington (Carole Lombard). Read More

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

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Old Man Blues

Synopsis: As this all-sung short opens, the audience sees two hearts cut into a tree, one with the name Helen, one with the name Paul. The camera pulls back to reveal the two young lovers who have carved their names thus, who seem to be very much in love. Time passes, and the hearts on the tree become a bit Read More

Follow the Leader

Actors: Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Lou Holtz, Lida Kane

Synopsis: Lensed at Paramount's Astoria studios, Follow the Leader is the film version of the 1927 Broadway musical Midnight Mary, with Ed Wynn making his talkie debut in his original stage role. The story has something to do with bombastic Broadway singer Helen King (Ethel Merman in her first feature-film Read More

Her Future

Crew: Director

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