vii, 264 pages : 24 cm

Offers alphabetically arranged profiles of one hundred fifty female performers, including actresses, choreographers, comics, dancers, directors, musicians, performance artists, singers, songwriters, talk show hosts, and a stripper

"A biographical dictionary"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Allen, Gracie -- Anderson, Laurie -- Anderson, Marian -- Arden, Eve -- Arthur, Jean -- 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 -- Callas, Maria -- Carpenter, Karen -- Carroll, Diahann -- Carter, Maybelle -- Castle, Irene -- Charisse, Cyd -- Cher -- Cline, Patsy -- Colbert, Claudette -- Crawford, Joan -- Cushman, Charlotte -- Dandridge, Dorothy -- Davis, Bette -- Day, Doris -- DeGeneres, Ellen -- De Mille, Agnes -- Del Rio, Dolores -- Dietrich, Marlene -- Diller, Phyllis -- Duncan, Isadora -- Dunham, Katherine -- Estefan, Gloria -- Farrell, Suzanne -- Finley, Karen -- Fitzgerald, Ella -- Fonda, Jane -- Foster, Jodie -- Franklin, Aretha -- Garbo, Greta -- Gardner, Ava -- Garland, Judy -- Gish, Dorothy -- Gish, Lillian -- Goldberg, Whoopi -- Grable, Betty -- Graham, Martha -- Harlow, Jean -- Hayes, Helen -- Hayworth, Rita -- Henie, Sonja -- Hepburn, Audrey -- Hepburn, Katharine -- Holiday, Billie -- Horne, Lena -- Houston, Whitney -- Humphrey, Doris -- Jackson, Mahalia -- James, Etta -- Jamison, Judith -- Joplin, Janis -- Kelly, Grace -- Kemble, Fanny -- Lee, Gypsy Rose -- Leginska, Ethel -- Leigh, Vivien -- Leitzel, Lillian -- Lombard, Carole -- Lupino, Ida -- Lynn, Loretta -- Mabley, Moms -- MacDonald, Jeanette -- Madonna -- Martin, Mary -- McDaniel, Hattie -- Merman, Ethel -- Midler, Bette -- Mills, Florence -- Minelli, Lisa -- Miranda, Carmen -- Mitchell, Joni -- Monk, Meredith -- Monroe, Marilyn -- Montez, Lola -- Moore, Mary Tyler -- Morena, Rita -- Norman, Jessye -- Normand, Mabel -- Oakley, Annie -- Parton, Dolly -- Pearl, Minnie -- Pickford, Mary -- Powell, Eleanor -- Powell, Maud -- Price, Florence -- Price, Leontyne -- Radner, Gilda -- Rainey, Ma -- Rand, Sally -- Rivers, Joan -- Roberts, Julia -- Rogers, Ginger -- Roseanne -- Ross, Diana -- Russell, Lillian -- Russell, Rosalind -- St. Denis, Ruth -- Sainte-Marie, Buffy -- Sarandon, Susan -- Shore, Dinah -- Sills, Beverly -- Slick, Grace -- Smith, Bessie -- Smith, Patti -- Stanwyck, Barbara -- Streep, Meryl -- Streisand, Barbra -- Swanson, Gloria -- 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 -- Varghan, Sarah -- Verdon, Gwen -- Warwick, Dionne -- Washington, Dinah -- Waters, Ethel -- West, Mae -- Winfrey, Oprah -- Wong, Anna May -- Wood Natalie -- Wynette, Tammy

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