Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman (96 page)

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

zoth Century-Fox

Directed by Walter Lang. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck/Sol C.
Siegel. Screenplay by Phoebe and Henry Ephron. Based on a
story by Lamar Trotti. Songs by Irving Berlin.

PRIMARY CAST

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Stanley Kramer-United Artists

Directed by Stanley Kramer. Screenplay by William and Tania Rose.

PRIMARY CAST

The Art ofLove (1965)

Universal

Directed by Norman Jewison. Produced by Ross Hunter.
Screenplay by Carl Reiner, from a story by Richard Alan
Simmons and William Sackheim.

PRIMARY CAST

Journey Back to Oz (1971)

Warner Bros.

Directed by Hal Sutherland. Written by Fred Ladd and Norm
Prescott, based on L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz.
Animated feature-produced in 1964 but not released until 1971.

PRIMARY CAST

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

Paramount

Directed by Michael Winner. Screenplay by Arnold Schulman
and Cy Howard.

Merman has a bit role as "Hedda Parson," along with scores of
other celebrities, in a story following a woman who arrives in
Hollywood to become a star with her dog in the mid i9zos.

Airplane! (1980)

Paramount

Written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and
Jerry Zucker. Produced by Jim Abrahams.

Merman has a cameo appearance as traumatized fighter pilot,
Lieutenant Hurwitz.