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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.

Museum / Unit

National Portrait Gallery 148 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of American History 28 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture 17 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum 10 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian American Art Museum 5 Filter by term Exclude term
Archives of American Art 3 Filter by term Exclude term
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 1 Filter by term Exclude term
National Air and Space Museum 1 Filter by term Exclude term

Resource Type

Photographs 125 Filter by term Exclude term
Paintings 20 Filter by term Exclude term
Prints 16 Filter by term Exclude term
Portraits 14 Filter by term Exclude term
Drawings 12 Filter by term Exclude term
Postage stamps 10 Filter by term Exclude term
Exterior views 9 Filter by term Exclude term
gelatin silver print 6 Filter by term Exclude term
Cards (information artifacts) 5 Filter by term Exclude term
collectible card 5 Filter by term Exclude term

Culture

African Americans 22 Filter by term Exclude term

Date

1910s 6 Filter by term Exclude term
1930s 41 Filter by term Exclude term
1940s 36 Filter by term Exclude term
1950s 31 Filter by term Exclude term
1960s 23 Filter by term Exclude term
1970s 28 Filter by term Exclude term
1980s 22 Filter by term Exclude term
1990s 16 Filter by term Exclude term
2000s 15 Filter by term Exclude term
2010s 7 Filter by term Exclude term

Place

United States 38 Filter by term Exclude term
North America 17 Filter by term Exclude term
New York 15 Filter by term Exclude term
United States of America 11 Filter by term Exclude term
Kings 10 Filter by term Exclude term
North and Central America 9 Filter by term Exclude term
New York City 7 Filter by term Exclude term
California 6 Filter by term Exclude term
England 6 Filter by term Exclude term
United Kingdom 6 Filter by term Exclude term

Set Name

National Portrait Gallery Collection 148 Filter by term Exclude term
Currently not on view 143 Filter by term Exclude term
Popular Entertainment 24 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 17 Filter by term Exclude term
Photographs and Still Images 15 Filter by term Exclude term
Work and Industry: Photographic History 14 Filter by term Exclude term
Culture and the Arts: Entertainment 13 Filter by term Exclude term
Photography 13 Filter by term Exclude term
National Postal Museum Collection 10 Filter by term Exclude term
Movie Collection 6 Filter by term Exclude term

Topic

Women 165 Filter by term Exclude term
Entertainers 160 Filter by term Exclude term
Portraits 154 Filter by term Exclude term
Arts and Culture 148 Filter by term Exclude term
Motion pictures 93 Filter by term Exclude term
Costume 92 Filter by term Exclude term
Music 90 Filter by term Exclude term
Movie actor 88 Filter by term Exclude term
Design 81 Filter by term Exclude term
Interior decoration 80 Filter by term Exclude term

Rights & Restrictions

Usage conditions apply 144 Filter by term Exclude term
Not determined 56 Filter by term Exclude term
CC0 19 Filter by term Exclude term

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Remove Date: 1920s

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

“Row-Row-Row”

Anna May Wong

Fanny Brice

Portrait of Donna Summer

Stamp with image of light-skinned woman with brown curly hair looking at us wearing a red coat

42c Bette Davis single

Whoopi Goldberg

Ginger Rogers

Gold Barbra

Elizabeth Taylor

Bessie Smith

Janis Joplin

Ella Fitzgerald, from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes

Lily Pons

Judy Garland

Leontyne Price, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"

Ethel Waters

Dale Evans

Veronica Lake

Joan Crawford

Stamp with head of a light-skinned woman with short, dark brown hair and brown eyes

37c Audrey Hepburn single

Deborah Harry

Renée Fleming

Dorothy Dandridge

44c Legends of Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn single

Myrna Loy

29c Patsy Cline single

"Patsy Montana's New Songs"

Oprah Winfrey

Photograph, Autographed, Actress, Angela Cartwright

Audrey Hepburn

Photograph of Lena Horne in profile

Interview, March 1991

Selena

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

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