Housecoat worn by Charita Bauer as Bert Bauer on Guiding Light
name: label: Associated Name
content: CBS Television Network
notes: label: Description
content: Green, black and cream quilted print housecoat worn by the character Bert Bauer on the soap opera <i> (The) Guiding Light </i>.
label: Description
content: <i>The Guiding Light </i> , later renamed <i>Guiding Light</i>, aired on CBS television from 1952-2009. The program began as an NBC radio serial in 1937, moving to CBS ten years later, where it continued to be broadcast even as the show moved to tv, ended in 1956.
label: Description
content: <i>Guiding Light’s </i> television stories first focused on the Bauers, a German American working-class family originating on the radio series. The character of Bertha “Bert” Miller joined the family by marrying “Bill Bauer” in 1949. Played by actress Charita Bauer, Bert was initially presented as a strong-willed social climber but eventually became a matriarch and dispenser of advice and wisdom. A plot line from the 1960s in which Bert was diagnosed with uterine cancer influenced many women to get regular pap smear screenings. Charita Bauer remained on <i>Guiding Light</i> until 1984.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Television
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Proctor and Gamble Productions, Inc., through Fred Bartholomew
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0198.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0198
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0198.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: housecoat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 14 in; 116.84 cm x 35.56 cm