@@tombstoneharrystudios584 - WRONG! She did NOT have dementia. She was in good health when she did this movie. Ethel Merman was diagnosed with an inoperable stage 4 glioblastoma in 1983 and passed in 1984, 10 months after she was diagnosed. Please do your research before posting inaccuracies. 🤨
@@kathy2trips whoops! Don’t blame me, blame wiki 😂. I’d thought that I’d read somewhere it was dementia but I stand corrected Still sad though, that she’d just got another wave of (deserved) fame to enjoy in her later career & that she couldn’t enjoy it!
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 - It figures. 🤨 Wiki is notoriously inaccurate...even downright lying at times. Try IMDB for an alternative source. Much better editors there. ✌
Yes! The cameo in the film certainly helped get her back in the public eye, but sadly by that time her health was leaving her & she couldn’t take advantage of the fame
@@thefrub If he had dug your comment up a little bit sooner and you had unleashed the plague of locusts from your tomb, I would think this is how covid began.
To be honest, the first time I saw the movie, I was so impressed that they got Ethel Merman. But what really made me lose it, was that moment when they sedate her. 😂
I love how Ethel stays on key even after the sedative is administered...just gives a lovely little slide. What does the woman say in the beginning? I can't make it out.
She was a great sport to do that. God bless her memory for it. I love it when celebs can mock themselves like this and take a joke. Remember when Stallone and Swartnienegger used to pop at each other in their movies. Damned funny as he'll back then.
I never gave enough attention to the "wife" sitting by her bedside confirming it is NOT Ethel Merman who somehow accidentally ended up in a war hospital, but really a dude who thinks he is Ethel. When it actually is. Ha ha. Poor wife. LOL
Not even old enough to have appreciated Ethel Merman but think this shit is funny as hell..love that i got to hear even if for a few seconds the theatrical broadway style belting
I know that place, when i can back from 'Nam, i was Ethel Mermann for weeks, singing Hello Dolly, You Can't Get a Man with a Gun at the top of my lungs... I knew it was a problem when i punched Ernest Borgnine in the face... At that point i sought help... It never really goes away... every so often i start humming I Got Rhythm. I don't like how they take the mickey like this, Ethel Mermann is a serious problem that the nation is facing, over 100 people are diagnosed with it every day...
Every time I hear the song "Everything is Coming Up Roses," I remember this scene. Heard it in Sandman, and so here I am. What a classic bit of comedy.
Classic movie! Constant laughter. I was looking for this exact scene to forward to someone that's never seen the movie. However familiar with Ethel Merman. From her time.
Ethel Merman has a small cameo but one of the best scenes in the movie. But no less a scene than Lucille Ball getting a Woman she thinks looks like Ethel Merman to play Ethel Merman, but doesn't know it's Ethel Merman.
Now this is a celebrity cameo that actually works and is funny, not like today's comedies which all seem to follow the standard template of "let's shoehorn a has-been celebrity" for a cheap laugh. "Hey, it's Lou Ferrigno! Look! It's Neil Diamond!"
I was probably 8 or 10 (more than 30 years ago) when I first saw this and I didn't understand why my mom and dad were almost pissing themselves laughing and choking on their cigarettes.
Hahahahaha I’m currently watching It’s a Mad Mad Mad World and I knew I’d seen her in something else, but never understood that this was the same lady when I was a kid. How hilarious!
War certainly as hell. Happy Memorial Day weekend 2022 thank you to all our service men and women who fight, who are fighting, Who have lost their lives for our freedom our freedom to fly the American flag. God bless us all God bless the United States of America and God bless our servicemen and women and don’t forget what memorial day means
Oops. I meant Merman wanted to make the film of "Annie." I think she resented the fact Hutton took over the film from Garland and thought Hutton was a low comedy type.
