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Ethel Levitt, her daughter, died on August 23, 1967, of a drug overdose that was ruled accidental. [64] [65] Her son Robert, Jr., was married to actress Barbara Colby. Colby, at the time estranged from Robert, was shot and killed (along with a friend, James Kiernan), in a parking garage in Los Angeles in July 1975.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UPI)—An autopsy was to be performed today on the body of Ethel Six Geary, 25-year-old daughter of actress Ethel Merman. Mrs. Geary was found in her bed Wednesday by her two children, Barbara, 6, and Michael, 5.
15 sty 2008 · Of the January 1958 suicide of her second husband Robert Levitt, Merman doesn’t linger on his depression; she instead praises his “marvelous taste” in jewelry and cuff links.
16 lut 1984 · Ethel Merman, the musical-comedy star whose belting voice and brassy style entertained Broadway and movie audiences for 50 years, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment yesterday. Miss Merman,...
She published a volume of memoirs in 1978, in which she spoke of the deep religious faith that had seen her through the death of her daughter in 1967 from an overdose of a prescribed medication for depression—an accident, Merman claimed, and not the suicide at which the media had hinted.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Ethyl Levitt (1942–1967) of New York City, New York, United States.
And as Ethel Merman quoted, “I’ve made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character – the professional brassy dame.” On February 15, 1984, she died in her Manhattan apartment home in New York City from brain cancer at the age of 76.
