Ethel Merman Movies

Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs.

Ethel Merman sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a cat burglar, just out of jail, raids Betty Boop's icebox.

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo...

"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous...

A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin

First of three programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine.

Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.

A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.

Relive the dazzling show stopping songs, dances and production numbers from some of your favorite Broadway musicals. Great Broadway Musical Moments...

The program was the first so-called "Television Spectacular". Ford presented the show without commercial interruption. It is believed to be the first...

Betty Boop, a nursemaid, meets a masher in the park; with the Bouncing Ball, Ethel Merman sings the title song.

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

In this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman, singing...

Documentary about the star-studded pre-inaugural gala that took place on January 19, 1961 to celebrate John F. Kennedy's election.

Begins with night club life in the Stone Age and evolves to the modern world of 1930.

A woman sundered from her sweetheart sings the title song as a duet with a personified Old Man Blues, in fog-shrouded woodland.

A defendant pleads her case in court and promises to stay out of trouble from now on through singing.

Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must...

A medicine show singer finds her love.