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Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gene Shalit--1977 TV Interview

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  • Ethel Merman and Mary Martin sat down with Gene Shalit for this rare interview in 1977, to promote their upcoming joint benefit concert.

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  • @SymphonyBrahms
    @SymphonyBrahms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ethel Merman and Mary Martin were great ladies of the theater. Both of them are legends.

  • @kathleenharris3403
    @kathleenharris3403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What confidence...she was born to perform for audiences..Love Ethel ❤

  • @user-ke7yx6ze2d
    @user-ke7yx6ze2d 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great Ladies and wonderful singing voices.

  • @allancuseo7431
    @allancuseo7431 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Makes me sad now to think of both of them gone. What legends!

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Ethel Merman had NO stage fright, no butterflies, nothing but non stop explosive self assurance from day one.

    • @tenisfin
      @tenisfin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I've read that she would say to nervous performers, "If they could do it, they'd be onstage and you'd be in the audience!"

    • @gregoryphillips3969
      @gregoryphillips3969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Great observation. I have always thought that Ethel Merman and Frank Sinatra were the 2 most confident performers l have seen. Both unshakeable and just literally in command of every moment.

  • @wotan10950
    @wotan10950 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Wonderful interview. They don't make stars like that anymore.

  • @dddddadadad1796
    @dddddadadad1796 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Ethel Merman! Mary Martin too❤

  • @Twentythousandlps
    @Twentythousandlps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I saw Ethel do Annie in 1966, she walked through the first act, and woke up for the second.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's always strange to see Ethel calm and speaking softly if you've watched "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" repeatedly.

    • @amydorsey5996
      @amydorsey5996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That movie ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    • @robertfishman3742
      @robertfishman3742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amy Dorsey I love that movie!

    • @briankooker2627
      @briankooker2627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robertfishman3742 These things happen because when these things happen all people say is "These things happen"

    • @robertfishman3742
      @robertfishman3742 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@briankooker2627 The movie had a truly all-star cast!

  • @PRLambert63
    @PRLambert63 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    At 5:23 when Merman claims to be 65, Martin just sort of looks at her and says " well you just use what you want to use and to heck with em !" Mermans reaction is edited out.

  • @carloshugogeib7961
    @carloshugogeib7961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Two Ladies of the theatre. A kind of Ladies that don't exist anymore.

  • @mariemarchesani1595
    @mariemarchesani1595 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was there. What a great night! It was Merman's show..she had the songs and the personality! Anna produced a classic, to bad Mary said NO to video tape it. Our loss!!!!

  • @piustwelfth
    @piustwelfth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    He actually asks their ages! Mary Martin tells the truth while Ethel Merman says: "I really should use 65!". She was actually 69 at the time. Hilarious!

  • @stephenstephen1505
    @stephenstephen1505 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two greats

  • @michaeljj43
    @michaeljj43 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    gene how bout addressing a question to mary martin.

    • @okjoe5561
      @okjoe5561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Really. He was quite rude.

    • @filmmekker
      @filmmekker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was edited. They might have thought Ethels responses were more entertaining.

  • @karlymoore6187
    @karlymoore6187 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She was right about how Broadway has changed on the stage and in the audience back in 1977 becuase it's even worse now. People don't dress or act respectfule but also the shows are mostly stage performances based on a singer's career not actual musicals like back in their days. There aren't any good composers anymore.

  • @micdom43
    @micdom43 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was a fabulous night to I was 16

  • @65wiseman
    @65wiseman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Miss Martin looks like June Cleavor.

  • @kennethdesmondmosley1075
    @kennethdesmondmosley1075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow did Mary Martin answer any questions

  • @darreylhenderson8979
    @darreylhenderson8979 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Mary reminds me soo much of Barbara Billiingsley

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking the same thing. Mary and Barbara both pretty

  • @randysills4418
    @randysills4418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Merman was really sixty-nine...born in January of 1908...

  • @59PianoMom
    @59PianoMom ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mary didn’t get a chance to get a word in.

  • @garryrenshaw774
    @garryrenshaw774 ปีที่แล้ว

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @mmjhcb
    @mmjhcb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I cannot imagine singing on Broadway, as the lead yet, and thinking of what you had to do later, including shopping lists. If it happened once or twice for whatever reason, okay, but Merman makes it sound as if it was ongoing and she was proud of it. To me, it is disrespectful of your job, your art, your commitment to the audience, even IF you really could have your concentration divided like that with no negative consequences. I think Mary Martin was also taken aback, but was too much a lady to pursue it.

  • @jamesmcinnis208
    @jamesmcinnis208 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The "urban clown" look never caught on despite Mr. Shalit's most valiant efforts.

  • @mariemarchesani1595
    @mariemarchesani1595 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    T

  • @therealwobblychair0483
    @therealwobblychair0483 ปีที่แล้ว

    Snooty

  • @stevehinnenkamp5625
    @stevehinnenkamp5625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now I get what I kind of suspected: Ethel was a fraud; Mary Martin was the real thing.

    • @randysills4418
      @randysills4418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mary was the real thing! I met her at a book signing and she spent ten minutes talking to me! Her business manager was trying to move things along but she wanted to talk to talk to me some more and that was that!!!

    • @SymphonyBrahms
      @SymphonyBrahms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ethel Merman was not a fraud. You show your prejudice and ignorance by saying that. Ask 100 people who the greatest Broadway star of all time was, and 99 of them will say that it was Ethel Merman.

    • @bmbutler2
      @bmbutler2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your jealousy is showing. Time to get some help

    • @bmbutler2
      @bmbutler2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sounds like you didn’t get the notice of Ethel Merman. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethel was a charismatic star but full of herself privately