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[Ethel Merman]

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (12 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Subjects

Genre/Form

Event (note)

First excerpt broadcast by KGO-TV, Channel 7, San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 18, 1967.

Contents

[Interview with Ethel Merman] (ca. 7 min.) / excerpt from Episode #456 in the television series Gypsy Rose Lee; interviewer, Gypsy Rose Lee. Merman and Lee discuss Lee's mother, whom Merman played in the musical Gypsy. Lee also screens and discusses b&w footage of her visit to a rehearsal of Gypsy at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York in 1959; among those appearing in this footage are director/choreographer Jerome Robbins and his creative collaborators Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim; performers Merman, Sandra Church (who played Louise, Lee's younger persona), Jacqueline Mayro (Baby June), Karen Moore (Baby Louise), and others. The 11-min. film from which this footage was taken appears on *MGZIA 4-6004 JRC Gypsy [Candid footage].
"Some people" (ca. 5 min.) / excerpt from an unidentified television show; time code at bottom of screen; sung by Ethel Merman.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6029 JRC

OCLC

NYPY02-F223

Title

[Ethel Merman] [videorecording]

Imprint

[n.d.]

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Event

First excerpt broadcast by KGO-TV, Channel 7, San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 18, 1967.

Local Note

For a complete recording of Episode #456 of the series Gypsy Rose Lee, see NCOX 1514.

Added Author

Church, Sandra. Performer

Robbins, Jerome. Depicted

Laurents, Arthur. Depicted

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Depicted

Sondheim, Stephen. Depicted

Merman, Ethel, performer.

Merman, Ethel, interviewee.

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970, interviewer.

KGO-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6029 JRC