If you've got a really strong stomach, the visual will remain with you for a lifetime. Unquestionably one of the funniest Hollywood legends ever. Tony Cointreau has all of Merman's diaries as well as her ashes. But wait, he also has the ashes of her parents and daughter. In the diaries, he calls the Merman Borgnine situation "very, very yucky" and doesn't want anyone to see it because it would demean both of them. He claims that Borgnine married Merman because he was broke and needed Merman's money. Merman described their marriage in her autobiography with a blank page.
Did Ernest Bornine really Dutch oven Ethel Merman on their honeymoon?
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| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 6, 2019 9:58 PM |
Their short lived marriage would make a funny comedy
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 31, 2017 6:01 PM |
Thank God they didn't procreate.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 31, 2017 6:48 PM |
Isn't a Dutch oven just farting under the sheets?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 31, 2017 7:59 PM |
yes
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 5, 2019 2:59 PM |
Ethel Merman had to endure so much in life. Jackie Susann’s obsessive stan crush on top of Borgnine’s infamous Dutch oven, which reportedly earned him the nickname Auschwitz on the set of McHale’s Navy.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 5, 2019 3:10 PM |
The Dutch must be so proud of this term.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 5, 2019 4:18 PM |
I believe the Dutch government has decreed it will be the Netherlands oven now
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 5, 2019 4:42 PM |
Was Ina the OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 5, 2019 5:36 PM |
So, I’ll ask - what’s a Dutch oven?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 5, 2019 6:12 PM |
See R4
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 5, 2019 6:23 PM |
Whoops - thanks R12
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 5, 2019 6:35 PM |
Why is that shocking? I'm confused. It's silly and childish but hardly worthy of mentioning.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 5, 2019 6:48 PM |
I heard it was so odorous it turned Merman's giant poof of a public hair bush snow white.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 5, 2019 6:52 PM |
R3, according to Varla Jean Merman, they did. The video below is not submitted as evidence. I just think it's funny.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 5, 2019 7:05 PM |
Love Varla Jean!!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 5, 2019 7:12 PM |
A Dutch Oven isn't just farting under the sheets, it's farting under the sheets AND pulling the sheets over your partners head and forcing them to stay under it (like the lid on a Dutch oven) and sit in the smell...it was a huge reason for my divorce.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 5, 2019 10:08 PM |
R16 was that one of Jessye Norman's lesser known appearances?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 5, 2019 10:19 PM |
Dutch Oven is when one or both parties are farting under a blanket and whoever flees the progressively toxic bedding-bound flatulence chamber first is the loser.
Ernest Borgnine never lost.
He was ruthless and relentless.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 6, 2019 8:50 PM |
Officially we now must call it Netherlands Oven.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 6, 2019 9:12 PM |
Ernest Borgnine told fellow actor Frank Wilson that he spent three weeks of his marriage arguing with Merman.
By the end, he recounted how she came back from a film one day and said, "The director said I looked sensational. He said I had the face of a 20 year old, and the body and legs of a 30 year old!" Borgnine replied, "Did he say anything about your old cunt?". "No" replied Ethel, "he didn't mention you at all."
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 6, 2019 9:58 PM |