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

Lillian Russell

Eartha Kitt

Annie Russell

Eva Longoria

Maria Callas

Cher

Marian Anderson

Maggie Mitchell

Judy Garland

Madonna

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Sophie Tucker

Marilyn Horne as Adalgisa in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma

Leontyne Price

Djaevlestenen

Beverly Sills

Marian Anderson

Leontyne Price

Ethel Merman

Betty Hutton

George Burns and Gracie Allen

Mary Martin

Jane Russell

Ellen DeGeneres

Mae West

Bette Davis

Odetta

Dinah Washington

Lily Tomlin

Murial Smith

Lena Horne

Lillian Gish

Eleanor Powell

Helen Hayes


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