Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was...
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April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014. Brooks, Daphne A. “Lady Menken’s Secret: Adah Isaacs Menken, Actress Biographies and the Race for Sensation.” Legacy...
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1976) Adah Belle Thoms (1870–1943), African-American nurse of World War I Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), American actress, painter, and poet Adah Jenkins...
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first entertainer to pose nude for photographs was the stage actress Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868). However, a number of well-known film stars have posed...
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cover for vital parts for roles such as Lady Godiva. American actress Adah Isaacs Menken created controversy in 1861 when she wore a flesh-colored bodystocking...
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Menken is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), American actress, painter and poet Alan Menken (born 1949)...
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of Emélie Cordier, an actress About 1866, Dumas had an affair with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress who was less than half his age and at the height...
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Stoddard (writing at first as "Pip Pepperpod"), Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Adah Isaacs Menken, Ada Clare, Prentice Mulford, Dan De Quille, J. S. Hittell and some...
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Bodystockings were used on stage in at least 1860s. In 1861, American actress Adah Isaacs Menken controversially wore a flesh coloured bodystocking on stage, to preserve...
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Clapp Jr., Ada Clare, Walt Whitman, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and actress Adah Isaacs Menken. Similar groups in other cities were broken up as well by the Civil...
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