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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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Phyllis Diller Laughs

Dolly Parton

Photograph of Gladys Bentley

Loïe Fuller

Dress worn by Ali Wong in her Stand-Up Comedy Special, Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

“Row-Row-Row”

Judy Garland

Renée Fleming

"Patsy Montana's New Songs"

Oprah Winfrey

Selena

Aretha Franklin, SCLC convention, Club Paradise, Memphis, TN

The Supremes (Florence Ballard, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson)

Loretta Lynn

Lillian Russell

Program for An Evening of Comedy with Jackie 'Moms' Mabley and Her Ladies

Book: Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual

Annie Russell

“My Man”

Maggie Mitchell

Madonna

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Poster from Hello, Dolly! with Phyllis Diller

Lillian Gish

Mary Lou Williams

Audrey Hepburn

Libba Cotten

Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969

Gloria Swanson

Photograph of Eartha Kitt

Photograph of a female performer in costume

Pearl Bailey

Debbie Allen - dancer

Marilyn Monroe

Cicely Tyson


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