Becky Sharp dress

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Object Details

Description

Green dress with gold embroidery worn by actress Minnie Maddern Fiske in the 1915 silent film Becky Sharp. The dress was on display in Nation of Nations as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibit, "Under the Footlights."

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Olive Kooken

Date made

1899

date made

1914

ID Number

ET.234377.021

accession number

234377

catalog number

234377.21

Object Name

dress

place made

United States: New York, New York

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Culture and the Arts: Entertainment

Movie Collection

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Theater

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