Call Me Madam

The film is incredibly lighthearted. The film also has several other good musical numbers, including Merman's performance of "Hostess With the Mostess. The dialogue is pretty snappy with some good one-liners. ... Full Review

In Call Me Madam , Luxembourg becomes the fictitious Lichtenburg. The exception to the rule was Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam , the archetypal Merman star vehicle, for which Merman won a Tony Award. ... Full Review

Call Me Madam: Klea Blackhurst stars as Sally Adams, the new ambassador to Lichtenburg originally played by Ethel Merman, in 42nd Street Moon's season-opening staging of the Irving Berlin musical with a topical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. ... Full Article

Posted: Aug. 17, 2008 Full disclosure up front: I am a Luxembourger. I never thought there were that many of us around, so when I heard there was an entire weekend of activities designed around promoting the Luxembourg culture and... ... Full Article

Twenty-two-year-old ex-stenographer and former nightclub singer Ethel Merman achieved overnight superstardom when, in 1930, she first belted out "I Got Rhythm" in the Broadway production of Girl Crazy. ... Full Article

June 5, 2000 -- I was invited to review the Movies Unlimited Catalog, so I looked through it to find some hard-to-find movies, new and old. ... Full Article

A great star and a great composer can make a Broadway musical into a smash, as Ethel Merman and Irving Berlin proved with Call Me Madam. ... Full Article