Crew Jacket for <i>All in the Family</i>
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content: Blue crew jacket worn by members of the cast and crew of the television program <i>All in the Family</i>. This jacket was donated by Jean Stapleton, who portrayed Edith Bunker on the popular series.<p>
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content: <i>All in the Family</i> was a CBS television series created and produced by Norman Lear. The sitcom was popular throughout its 1971-1979 run and was lauded for its exploration of social and political issues of the 1970s, what Lear called “real people dealing with real issues.” The show told the story of the Bunker family, a white working-class family from Queens, New York. Archie, the stubborn and socially-conservative patriarch, often clashed with his wife, the sweet, naïve Edith, his feminist daughter Gloria, and her liberal husband Michael. Archie’s living room chair became the family’s meeting place for heated debates about a plethora of issues dividing America – women’s rights, racism, homosexuality, the Vietnam War, and the generational divide between Baby Boomers and the World War II generation.<p>
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content: Jean Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923 in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of a salesman and an opera singer. She attended Hunter College and performed in summer stock theater before making her Broadway debut in the 1953 production of <i>In the Summerhouse</i>. In a career that lasted five decades, Stapleton appeared in numerous Broadway productions including <i>Damn Yankees</i>, <i>Bells Are Ringing</i>, and <i>Funny Girl</i>, as well as a variety of television and film productions. In 1971, Stapleton was cast as the Edith Bunker in Norman Lear’s sitcom <i>All in the Family</i>. Her portrayal of the sweet yet naïve wife of the bigoted Archie Bunker earned her three Primetime Emmys, two Golden Globes, and induction into the Television Hall of Fame. <p>
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content: Currently not on view
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content: LGBTQ Rights
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content: LGBTQ
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content: Gay Rights
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2017.0150.09
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content: 2017.0150
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content: 2017.0150.09
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content: jacket
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content: costume
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content: prop
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: jacket zipped: 29 in x 20 in; 73.66 cm x 50.8 cm