Dress worn by Phyllis Diller on 1987 USO Christmas Tour
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1987
notes: label: Description (Brief)
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content: Phyllis Diller wore this red and white Santa dress with belt as part of an outfit also including a pair of red panties, red pantyhose, white gloves, and a head band with a white pompom at the end of a rod, when she joined Bob Hope’s USO tour of the Persian Gulf in 1987. Other members of the 1987 tour included <i>I Dream of Jeannie</i> actress Barbara Eden, Connie Stevens and her daughters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher, “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood, and Miss USA Michelle Royer.
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content: <p>
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content: Diller was lifelong friends with Bob Hope, co-starring with him in 3 films and many TV specials. In 1978, the USO of Philadelphia, Inc. awarded Diller the USO Liberty Bell Award “for demonstrating concern for the welfare and morale of America’s armed forces.” The award is also at NMAH (Catalog Number 2003.0289.42).
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label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Holidays and Celebrations, general
label: Subject
content: Christmas
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content: Humor
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content: Comedians
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0289.09.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0289.09.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
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content: synthetic fibers (overall material)
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content: nylon (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: adhesive (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: back: 34 in; 86.36 cm
label: Measurements
content: shoulder: 17 in; 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: sleeves: 22 in; 55.88 cm