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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman
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Ethel Merman
Age: 76 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 16
Died: 1984
Died: February 15
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Ethel Agnes Zimmermann
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
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