Ethel Merman -- the undisputed queen of the Broadway musical from 1930, when she opened in "Girl Crazy," until 1970, when she closed in "Hello, Dolly!" -- was a force of nature, one whom people ...

(Caption: Ethel Merman, ... had a storied career that's explored with fascinating details and a few revelations in the biography Ethel Merman, by Brian Kellow.

BRASS DIVA: THE LIFE AND LEGENDS OF ETHEL MERMAN By Caryl Flinn University of California Press, 556 pages, $34.95ETHEL MERMAN: A LIFE By Brian Kellow Viking, 336 pages, $25.95 Two biographies of Et… ...

Two books were released last year, “Brass Diva” by Caryl Flinn and “Ethel Merman: A Life” by Brian Kellow. And Rita McKenzie begins her 20th year traveling the country performing a one ...

Learn about Ethel Merman: A Life - With dueling Merman biographies being released just prior to her birth centennial in 2008 (see review above of Caryl Flinn's Brass Diva), Kellow's slimmer tome ...

Opera News Features Editor Brian Kellow has written a biography of Broadway legend Ethel Merman (1908-1984), titled Ethel Merman: A Life. Kellow discusses the dramatic life of the lady whom George ...

Written and directed by Drama Desk winner Richard Sabellico and stage-managed by Adolpho Blaire, the play is based upon Brian Kellow's biography "Ethel Merman: A Life" and features music from such ...

Kellow, the features editor at Opera News and author of a biography of Ethel Merman, is himself a fanboy, although he never got a chance to be one of the "Paulettes," the name critic Richard ...

In the 1970s, there wasn’t a Hollywood agent more successful than Sue Mengers. Her client roster read like a who’s who of the hottest actors and directors of the time: Barbra Streisand, Gene ...

A diva on stage and off, Merman was an outsized personality and a show-biz legend.Biographer Brian Kellow tells her story in “Ethel Merman: A Life” (Penguin, $25.95). Kellow, ...