Miss Starlett costume, worn by Carol Burnett on "The Carol Burnett Show"
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: user
content: Burnett, Carol
label: maker
content: Bob Mackie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: “I saw it in a window and just couldn’t resist it,” Carol Burnett remarked about her outrageous “curtain dress,” worn in a comedy sketch that aired on her CBS TV series. Designer Bob Mackie created the costume for the sketch, which was a wild parody of the 1939 film classic Gone with the Wind. The sketch, by writers Mike Marmer and Stan Burns, was humorously titled “Went with the Wind” and Burnett played a character named Starlett O’Hara, a name that lampoons the film’s heroine, Scarlett O’Hara. The skit recreated, in comic terns, a famous scene from the film in which Scarlett fashions a gown from the parlor draperies. Mackie’s design included a brass curtain rod balanced on the shoulders and a hat fashioned from a valence. The costume was a vital ingredient in the overall effect of Burnett’s comic portrayal.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bob Mackie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0078.01
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0078.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0078
objectType: label: Object Name
content: costume
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 1/2 in x 55 in x 60 in; 194.31 cm x 139.7 cm x 152.4 cm