Cast: Ethel Merman
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ethel Merman. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Ethel Merman
Plot This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
6.5
106 votes
6.5
106 votes
Airplane!
1980 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker
Cast Robert Hays · Julie Hagerty · Leslie Nielsen · Lloyd Bridges
Plot The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to...
6.4
87K votes
6.4
87K votes
There´s No Business Like Show Business
1954 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Ethel Merman · Dan Dailey · Donald O´Connor · Marilyn Monroe
Plot Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of...
6.1
712 votes
6.1
712 votes
The Art of Love
1965 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast James Garner · Dick Van Dyke · Miiko Taka · Elke Sommer
Plot Painter Paul Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more...
5.6
138 votes
5.6
138 votes
That Girl (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Sam Denoff · Bill Persky · Hal Cooper · John Rich
Cast Marlo Thomas · Ted Bessel · Ruth Buzzi · George Carlin
Plot TV Series (1965-1971). 5 Seasons. A beloved and landmark television series — and the first to spotlight a young female character taking charge of her life — “That Girl” premiered...
5.5
25 votes
5.5
25 votes
Call Me Madam
1953 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Ethel Merman · Donald O´Connor · Vera-Ellen · George Sanders
Plot Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
5.5
29 votes
5.5
29 votes
Anything Goes
1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Bing Crosby · Ethel Merman · Charles Ruggles · Ida Lupino
5.2
40 votes
5.2
40 votes
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast William Terry · Cheryl Walker · Sunset Carson · Lon McCallister
Plot The greatest collection of stars in an "All Out for Victory" musical blockbuster. The story is a simple soldier-meets-USO-girl love story, but what a supporting cast! Katharine Hepburn, Helen Hayes,...
5.0
199 votes
5.0
199 votes
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jack Oakie · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Lyda Roberti
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Shower of Stars (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Levy · Seymour Berns · Ralph Nelson
Cast William Lundigan · Art Gilmore · Jack Benny · Mary Costa
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Straight Place and Show
1938 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast The Ritz Brothers · Richard Arlen · Ethel Merman · Phyllis Brooks
Plot The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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We're Not Dressing
1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bing Crosby · Carole Lombard · George Burns · Gracie Allen
Plot Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with...
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Kid Millions
1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Eddie Cantor · Ann Sothern · Ethel Merman · George Murphy
Plot A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Strike Me Pink
1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Merman · Sally Eilers · Harry Parke
Plot After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Michael Winner
Cast Madeline Kahn · Bruce Dern · Art Carney · Phil Silvers
Plot In 1924 Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress, but the dog, that followed her becomes the star. But Hollywood has its own rules of sucess.
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Happy Landing
1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Sonja Henie · Don Ameche · Jean Hersholt · Ethel Merman
Plot The Bride's Fair in a small Norwegian village is interrupted by the forced landing of Jimmy Hall and Duke Sargent, two Americans lost - really, really lost - while flying...
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Follow the Leader
1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Ed Wynn · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith · Lou Holtz
Plot Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland's favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. A romance...
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