Women in Music Posters “Gr...-Gu...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Betty Grable, Photo

Betty Grable
née Elizabeth Ruth Grable
b. 12-18-1916; St. Louis, MO
d. 7-2-1973; Santa Monica, CA (lung cancer)

Betty Grable started as a chorus girl in 1929, with her mother helping to falsifiy birth records. To promote her legs as the most beautiful in Hollywood the studio insured them for $1,000,000, playing off the 1937 movie Million Dollar Legs.

Martha Graham Photograph

Martha Graham
b. 5-11-1894; Allegheny, PA
d. 4-1-1991

• Martha Graham Dance on Film

Martha Graham - Lucifer Poster Joan Miro artist

Giuseppina Grassini
b. 4-18-1773; Varese, Italy
d. 1-3-1850; Milan

Contralto Giuseppina Grassini was one of the most powerful stage presence in opera during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She was also exordinarily beautiful and well known for her “unruly love affairs” which included Napoleon.

Charlotte Greenwood Photographic Print

Charlotte Greenwood
b. 6-25-1890; Philadelphia, PA
d. 12-28-1977; Los Angeles

Dancer and actress Charlotte Greenwood was tall, around 6 feet, and known for her very high kicks with her long legs. She played Aunt Eller in the 1955 movie Oklahoma.

• Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film

Carlotta Grisi Giclee Print

Carlotta Grisi, née Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi
b. 6-28-1819; Visinada, Istria
d. 5-20-1899; Switzerland

Carlotta Grisi's greatest role was Giselle, a ballet choregraphed by her teacher danseur Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli. She was one of the ballerinas featured in the “Pas de Quatre”.

• Carlotta Grisi by Serge Lifar

Hilde Gueden
née Hulda Geiringer
b. 9-15-1917; Vienna
d. 9-17-1988

Soprano Hilde Gueden was an accomplished and versatile singer noted for her roles in Strauss and Mozart roles. She avoided arrest by the Nazis with a fake passport.

Yvette Guilbert
b. 1-20-1865; Paris
d. 2-2-1944; Aix-en-Provence

Guilbert, born into a poor family, worked as a department store model, took singng and acting lessons, sang at the Moulin Rouge, and eventually toured England, Germany, and the United States.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec made many portraits and caricatures of Guilbert capturing her usual pose of standing almost perfectly still in a bright yellow dress and long black gloves.