Albion native’s award-winning documentary now available to public | Orleans Hub

Posted 5 December 2023 at 3:15 pm “Just a Broadway Baby: Mary Ellen Ashley” is now available through Vimeo on Demand. Press Release, Patrick Riviere Albion native and Niagara University graduate Patrick Riviere’s award-winning short documentary film, Just a Broadway Baby: Mary Ellen Ashley, about the life and career of Mary Ellen Ashley (formerly Mary Ellen Glass), has just been released to a worldwide audience on Vimeo on Demand. Patrick Riviere and Mary Ellen Ashley are shown at a film festival. The film, which chronicles Mary Ellen’s start on Broadway at the age of five in The Innocent Voyage and her full run in the original Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun starring Ethel Merman, to her work in Las Vegas, radio, early television and more recent theater film and TV, spans 8 decades. Ms. Ashley, who now resides in California and is still working at the young age of 87, is thrilled to have the film reaching a wider audience. “We did so well on the film festival circuit winning eight awards and five of those were Best Short Documentary awards from coast to coast! I continue to be amazed at the outpouring and love in support of this film and my
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