#5463~The Broadway musical "Hello Dolly!" was written for Ethel Merman. But she didn't star in the hit show until long after it opened--and only after Carol Channing, Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Bibi Osterwald, Pearl Bailey and Phyllis Diller had appeared in the title role.

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