#like I wonder if ethel merman was like ‘yeah I’ve been a star for 40 years and I’ll be on your c-list celebrity game show IF…’
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[Mild Match Game-typical bickering between Brett and Charles]
Gene (pseudo-confidentially to Ethel Merman): Do you think there’s a little bit of hostility going on between the two of those?
Ethel Merman: I don’t know if you’d call it hostility, but there’s something going on.
Brett (singing, imitating Ethel): We’re just in lo-ove!
Both Ethel and Brett cackling.
Gene: She does you pretty good, you know.
Ethel: Oh yes, I’m getting out of the business.
Gene: Can you do her?
Ethel (a beat and then deadpan): Do her doing what?
#prime example of why she’s in my top 5 Match Game Pretty Girls#she gives a few wonky answers here and there but generally is super competent at the game#but she’s absolutely Flawless at interacting with the other panelists#ethel merman#match game#match game monologue transcriptions nobody asked for#Brett somers#I wonder if the guest panelists got a say in who else would be there when they appeared?#Ethel at one point tells a long very Brett-esque story about how sad she was that fannie didn’t visit her in her hotel in New York one time#and they’re always talking to each other across the way and hyping each other#like I wonder if ethel merman was like ‘yeah I’ve been a star for 40 years and I’ll be on your c-list celebrity game show IF…’#another thing I think about all the time is that Brett and Fannie were really mad that the producers had the audacity to make Ethel audition#and so they sat in on the audition as moral support so that maybe she’d not perceive it as an audition#but she definitely knew but appreciated the gesture and bought them both expensive strings of pearls 😍#and Ethel is so sad when Fannie doesn’t wear the pearls 😍#80% convinced Ethel was like ‘yeah ok if my pal fannie is there. and I guess Joyce bulifant will do in a pinch’#what was going on behind the scenes of this show?!
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