A to Z of Women: American Women in the Performing Arts
A to Z of Women: American Women in the Performing Arts
Editor/Author
Sonneborn, Liz
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-5005-5
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count:
90
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts, Second Edition is an engaging resource that provides readers with insightful, up-to-date biographies of select women in the performing arts from the 19th century to the present.
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Table of Contents
- A
- Allen, Gracie
- Anderson, Laurie
- Anderson, Marian
- Arden, Eve
- Arthur, Jean
- B
- Bacall, Lauren
- Baez, Joan
- Bailey, Pearl
- Baker, Josephine
- Ball, Lucille
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Bara, Theda
- Barrymore, Ethel
- Berg, Gertrude
- Bergen, Candice
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Bow, Clara
- Brice, Fanny
- Brooks, Louise
- Burnett, Carol
- C
- Callas, Maria
- Carpenter, Karen
- Carroll, Diahann
- Carter, Maybelle
- Castle, Irene
- Charisse, Cyd
- Cher
- Cline, Patsy
- Colbert, Claudette
- Crawford, Joan
- Cushman, Charlotte
- D
- Dandridge, Dorothy
- Davis, Bette
- Day, Doris
- De Mille, Agnes
- DeGeneres, Ellen
- Del Rio, Dolores
- Dietrich, Marlene
- Diller, Phyllis
- Duncan, Isadora
- Dunham, Katherine
- E
- Estefan, Gloria
- F
- Farrell, Suzanne
- Finley, Karen
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Fonda, Jane
- Foster, Jodie
- Franklin, Aretha
- G
- Garbo, Greta
- Gardner, Ava
- Garland, Judy
- Gish, Dorothy
- Gish, Lillian
- Goldberg, Whoopi
- Grable, Betty
- Graham, Martha
- H
- Harlow, Jean
- Hayes, Helen
- Hayworth, Rita
- Henie, Sonja
- Hepburn, Audrey
- Hepburn, Katharine
- Holiday, Billie
- Horne, Lena
- Houston, Whitney
- Humphrey, Doris
- J
- Jackson, Mahalia
- James, Etta
- Jamison, Judith
- Joplin, Janis
- K
- Kelly, Grace
- Kemble, Fanny
- L
- Lee, Gypsy Rose
- Leginska, Ethel
- Leigh, Vivien
- Leitzel, Lillian
- Lombard, Carole
- Lupino, Ida
- Lynn, Loretta
- M
- Mabley, Moms
- MacDonald, Jeanette
- Madonna
- Martin, Mary
- McDaniel, Hattie
- Merman, Ethel
- Midler, Bette
- Mills, Florence
- Minnelli, Liza
- Miranda, Carmen
- Mitchell, Joni
- Monk, Meredith
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Montez, Lola
- Moore, Mary Tyler
- Moreno, Rita
- N
- Norman, Jessye
- Normand, Mabel
- O
- Oakley, Annie
- P
- Parton, Dolly
- Pearl, Minnie
- Pickford, Mary
- Powell, Eleanor
- Powell, Maud
- Price, Florence
- Price, Leontyne
- R
- Radner, Gilda
- Rainey, Ma
- Rand, Sally
- Rivers, Joan
- Roberts, Julia
- Rogers, Ginger
- Roseanne
- Ross, Diana
- Russell, Lillian
- Russell, Rosalind
- S
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Sarandon, Susan
- Shore, Dinah
- Sills, Beverly
- Slick, Grace
- Smith, Bessie
- Smith, Patti
- St. Denis, Ruth
- Stanwyck, Barbara
- Streep, Meryl
- Streisand, Barbra
- Swanson, Gloria
- T
- Tallchief, Maria
- Talmadge, Norma
- Tamiris, Helen
- Tandy, Jessica
- Tanguay, Eva
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- Temple, Shirley
- Tharp, Twyla
- Thornton, Big Mama
- Tomlin, Lily
- Tucker, Sophie
- Turner, Lana
- Turner, Tina
- V
- Vaughan, Sarah
- Verdon, Gwen
- W
- Warwick, Dionne
- Washington, Dinah
- Waters, Ethel
- West, Mae
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Wong, Anna May
- Wood, Natalie
- Wynette, Tammy
- Support Materials
- Recommended Sources on American Women in the Performing Arts