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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

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Ethel Merman
Age: 76 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 16
Died: 1984
Died: February 15
Actor
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Stage Actor
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Writer
Ethel Agnes Zimmermann
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