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Ethel Merman: The role she made her own — Annie gets her gun again... 20 years after

Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 June 1966

THERE REALLY is no business like show business. Ask Ethel Merman, who this week, at the age of 57, got to play the part of a love-struck adolescent in a Broadway musical.

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