There’s no better set of songs on the London stage than Irving Berlin‘s for Call Me Madam, a 1950 musical written for Ethel Merman in the wake of a coarse-grained Washington DC party-giver, Perle ...

The brevity of political satire's shelf life tends to rival that of a tray of supermarket eggs, but it seems one of the quips penned by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for the book of their smash ...

Call Me Madam (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that ...

Beginnings -- From stenographer to star -- The early thirties -- To Hollywood and back again -- Broadway's brightest : the early forties -- Forging a family -- What comes natur'lly : Annie get your ...

“Welcome to Lichtenburg,” sings Cosmo Constantine, foreign minister of the diminutive duchy, as he anticipates the arrival of the new ambassador from the United States. And too easy to knock down.” A ...

Russell Nype, a singer and actor who won two Tony Awards in the 1950s, one for a role alongside Elaine Stritch in “Goldilocks” and another for his part in “Call Me Madam,” which included a rousing, ...

Lili (M-G-M). An elfin little musical that never quite gets lost in its own whimsy; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March 9). Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman’s ...