Popular Entertainment - Overview
This Museum's popular entertainment collections hold some of the Smithsonian's most beloved artifacts. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz reside here, along with the Muppet character Kermit the Frog, and props from popular television series such as M*A*S*H and All in the Family. But as in many of the Museum's collections, the best-known objects are a small part of the story.
The collection also encompasses many other artifacts of 19th- and 20th-century commercial theater, film, radio, and TV—some 50,000 sound recordings dating back to 1903; posters, publicity stills, and programs from films and performances; puppets; numerous items from World's Fairs from 1851 to 1992; and audiovisual materials on Groucho Marx, to name only a few.
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sound recording:
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Art of Jazz, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1985.0035.01
- accession number
- 1985.0035
- catalog number
- 1985.0035.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording:
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1985.0256.01
- accession number
- 1985.0256
- maker number
- 17075
- catalog number
- 1985.0256.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Patcha, Patcha, All Nite Long
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1985
- maker
- Pablo
- ID Number
- 1986.0425.01
- accession number
- 1986.0425
- catalog number
- 1986.0425.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: I Don't Dig It
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1940-1949
- maker
- Jukebox Lil
- ID Number
- 1986.0425.02
- accession number
- 1986.0425
- catalog number
- 1986.0425.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Tatum Solo Masterpieces - Lp, the
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1981
- maker
- Pablo
- ID Number
- 1986.0425.03
- accession number
- 1986.0425
- catalog number
- 1986.0425.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Tatum Solo Materpieces - Lp, the
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1981
- maker
- Pablo
- ID Number
- 1986.0425.04
- accession number
- 1986.0425
- catalog number
- 1986.0425.04
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Columbia
- ID Number
- 1986.0597.01
- accession number
- 1986.0597
- maker number
- 35530
- catalog number
- 1986.0597.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Hello, Dolly Dress
- Description
- One of the most distinctive comediennes of her generation, Carol Channing (b. 1921) catapulted to stardom as the baby-voiced heroine of the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1949). Nearly two decades later, her performance as the resourceful Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! (1964) reaffirmed her standing as a theatrical superstar. Her return to the role of Dolly in various revivals of the show has made the part undoubtedly hers. This red satin, sequin-bedecked costume, designed by Freddy Wittop, was worn by Channing in the vibrant production number built around the show's title song.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1994
- user
- Channing, Carol
- maker
- Grace Costumes
- designer
- Wittop, Freddy
- ID Number
- 1997.0232.01
- accession number
- 1997.0232
- catalog number
- 2002.0232.27
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Scarecrow Costume
- Description
- Ray Bolger wore this patchwork outfit as the Scarecrow, one of the trio of friends who accompany Dorothy to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz.
- date made
- 1939
- user
- Bolger, Ray
- designer
- Adrian
- ID Number
- COLL.SCRCRW.002000
- accession number
- 1987.0608
- catalog number
- 1987.0608.01
- 1987.0608.02
- 1987.0608.03
- 1987.0608.04
- 1987.0608.05
- 1987.0608.06
- 1987.0608.07
- 1987.0608.08
- 1987.0608.09
- 1987.0608.10
- 1987.0608.11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center