The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

How did a stenographer from Queens, New York become a premiere star of golden-age Broadway? We’ll spend this hour with Caryl Flinn, professor of Women’s Studies and Media Arts at the University of Arizona, and author of the new biography “Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman” (University of California Press, 2007).

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