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Entertaining Women: American Women on Stage and Screen

A celebration of American women entertainers, including musicians, dancers, comedians, actors, and other performers, represented in the Smithsonian's collections.


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Loïe Fuller

39c Black Heritage: Ella Fitzgerald single

“Row-Row-Row”

Renée Fleming

Lillian Russell

Book: Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual

Annie Russell

“My Man”

Maggie Mitchell

Madonna

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Poster from Hello, Dolly! with Phyllis Diller

Mary Lou Williams

Gloria Swanson

Pearl Bailey

Ethel Merman and Mary Martin

Phylicia Rashad

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